The Great American Gas Out

I hope you all did your part to stick it to Bush’s Big Oil Buddies today by holding off on filling your tanks until tomorrow, when gas prices will be three cents a gallon higher. That’ll show ‘em! Today’s boycott will be a lesson to all greedy corporations that we will no longer allow them to profit at the expense of the consumer!

But the people paying $3.50 per gallon at the pump aren’t the only victims of corprate greed. Big Oil keeps a dime out of every gallon of gasoline they force us to buy. Compare that to an 18 cents per gallon federal gas tax, plus your state gas tax (34 cents per gallon in WA), plus any local city or county gas taxes, and you’ll come to the realization that the greedy oil companies aren’t only stealing from you, but from our Democrat leaders as well. After all, the ten cents Exxon or Conoco profits on every gallon is ten cents that our benevolent Democrat leaders won’t be able to take from us as punishment for buying gas. Furthermore, the higher gas prices rise, the less likely the American sheeple will vote for gas tax increases, forcing Democrats to raise gas taxes anyway and look like heels for doing so. Thanks to the selfish public’s primitive lust for lower taxes, noble Democrats will be supplanted by idiot Repugs who have absolutely no appreciation for the art of social engineering by way of confiscatory taxation. Without progressives to nurture and guide us as they have throughout history, the human race will essentially be left to wander alone in the wilderness – only they won’t be wandering: they’ll be driving big, smog-belching Hummers with “W” stickers on the windows and a Black man chained to the rear bumper.

In order to end the destructive cycle of corporate greed and save the planet for any children we haven’t got around to aborting, Congress must act now to raise gas taxes to such a degree that the oil companies will be afraid to raise prices at the pump - instead of it happening the other way around. A $9 per gallon federal gas tax would not only put money back into our pockets, but would relieve traffic congestion and the strain on our environment by making it too expensive for anyone other than celebrities, politicians, and newspaper editors to drive a car. It’s a practical and courageous solution, so frankly I’m not surprised a liberal paper came up with it.

Comments

[Methinks]

"I'm afraid I can't afford to pay all those institutions around the world, the WHO, the OECD, etc, etc, etc, American reporters, Reuters, and all major worldwide media outlets at the same time" - Filth

Of course you can't, little bitch! For one of two reasons: either you're too bone idle and stupid to make a living (my bet) or because your government taxes you do death.

"One swallow doth not a summer make. And one example from any poster here proves nothing whatsoever about health care in the USA. In fact, 10 examples here prove nothing. Only cross borders research can prove the point.

And that has been done."

HA HA HA HA HA HA! Go back to what you do best - masturbating your tiny weeny - and leave the fancy words like "doth" to folks who've bothered to read more than Spider Man comics in their lives.

[Arlo]

"And one example from any poster here proves nothing whatsoever about health care in the USA. In fact, 10 examples here prove nothing. Only cross borders research can prove the point."

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? Don't look at that man behind the curtain.

[Arlo]

Methinks,

Whither forth comes thy rage? You should have said "thy spindly twig masterbatheth."

Peace out!

[Arbiter]

Arlo,

Your sad story brings tears to my eyes... kind of like the cruel torture being done to the Freedom Fighters at Gitmo

My other brother had to be in intensive care for 7 days following a heart attack, and did you know the government picked up the bill because my brother was unemployed! I'm still angry about this because my brother is a prideful man who wished dearly he could have paid the $135,000 instead of having to get off scot free!

[Che]

Arlo,
You want more heartless? Make her kick over your shovel.

The fact is that he GOT care in spite of not being able to pay for it. That's far from heartless.

[Che]

Oh shit. You were in character. My bad.

I'd still make her kick your shovel. Getting shotput over the bars a couple times will teach her to pay her bills. Either that or put her on the pillion and go over railroad tracks.

[one_who_pays_attention]

Methinks,

You can write and splutter and write and splutter all you like. Keep it up if you like.
It won't change the research, or the facts.

Now, splutter and rage some more.
You're wasting your breath - as ever.

[Methinks]

Arlo,

I've spent two hours with a very high up WHO doctor a couple of years ago discussing the problems of these statistics and, more recently, last week! None of these health organizations normalize the statistics before they compare them. For example:

Communist trash constantly bitches that American infant mortality statistics are so much worse than Europe's. This is true. In America, if an infant is born premature and weighing 400 grams, we move heaven and earth to save that child. The mortality rate for such preemies is 50%. If that infant does die, we record it as a live birth and then a death. Also, preemies are correlated to multiple births, which in turn are correlated to in-vitro fertilization. In Europe, they don't bother trying to save the infant (too expensive) and record the death as a fetal death. This obviously makes American infant mortality statistics look much higher and raises the cost of medicine in the US relative to Europe.

In addition, drug companies are forced to sell pharmaceuticals to countries with socialized medicine at a reduced price. This forces the drug companies to make up the cost of actually developing the drug in the US. That's right - we subsidize socialized medicine by paying higher prices for drugs and all socialized medicine countries are classic "free riders". Or, in the popular vernacular, "free loaders".

So, sure, we could improve our infant mortality statistics to resemble Europe's by denying women access to in-vitro fertilization and letting premature babies croak. We could also stop selling expensive drugs - even if it means that more people will die of diseases like cancer (as they already do in Europe). What a wonderful world that would be, non?

My personal solution, though, is not to sell drugs to socialized medicine countries and not allow them to come to the United States to get medical treatment and not to share medical advancement. Let them wallow in the hell they’ve created until they realize that they need to pay for their own lunch and they’d better make some changes. I’m tired of subsidizing them.

[one_who_pays_attention]

"HA HA HA HA HA HA! Go back to what you do best - masturbating your tiny weeny"

Some day someone will tell you about the birds and bees, and which gender has a "weeny", as you delightfully call it. Peurile splurge.

[csason]

When my daughter had her stroke, they moved her between four hospitals in less than six hours.. but they didn't even ask for insurance at any of them, go figure.

Although her bills never did max out her million dollar lifetime benefit that costed at the time $4.00 dollars a week, I did my part when it came to ripping a wheelchair lift out of a junkyard schoolbus and fitting it to the fambly van.
It was way too much hassle to fill out the forms and be a gubmint persyn and get a fancy new van ready equipped.
My ex was way too pea-brained about the whole thing. She actually traded moi for a gubmint house- they told her down at the food stamp office, that IF she were single she could qualify..so she moved out.

Did you know that if you can get your hands on one of those SSI check thingys, it's like a golden ticket at Willie Wonka's gate...only Willie is really the working man's back pocket..

So I wish some of these people 'who are paying attention' would chip in and get their grubby little fingers out of my pocket, and if they must sit around and try to imagine things to be upset about...imagine all the people waiting in line for a friggin tylenol..woops aceteminophen, made in Haiti.

In other words..We ain't payin' for your sex-change operation, BUD !!

[one_who_pays_attention]

LOLOL

[Methinks]

Filth,

You can put yourself on exhibit as an example of your inbred parents' failures but you're still a giant douche-bag with no discernable reproductive organs.

You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on your ass. 'Scuse me, "arse" or whatever the fuck you say in that sister-fucking village of yours.

You just take perverse pleasure in spewing your endless filth on a blog where everybody knows you for the thing that you are.

You are a clear example of why America should have dropped the Atom bomb on Europe as well as Japan.

You get the same treatment every time you come back as a new sock. Suck it up - I'm sure you're practiced at that.

[one_who_pays_attention]

"You are a clear example of why America should have dropped the Atom bomb on Europe as well as Japan."

And you wonder why the USA is not exactly popular in the rest of the world.

May God help you all.

[Methinks]

"which gender has a "weeny", as you delightfully call it."

Well, when you figure out what the hell you are, you take it up with one of your socialist doctors, 'K? I don't really want to know what's down there and I'm pretty sure you don't either.

You are dismissed.

[one_who_pays_attention]

You are sick in the head, Methinks. But you know that. And I should make allowances. But you need anger management, as well as many other forms of therapy. Try your wonderful health service, would you? Someone might be able to help. Assuming you have enough cash.

[Methinks]

"May God help you all."

And may God visit yet another potato famine on you as the US closes its borders.

[one_who_pays_attention]

"You are dismissed."

Tee hee! Now he/she is trying comedy.

[one_who_pays_attention]

"And may God visit yet another potato famine on you as the US closes its borders."

See?

'Why do they hate us? It's not fair! We're a lovely wonderful country, the nicest and best in the world.'

[one_who_pays_attention]

Ugh.

[Che]

'Why do they hate us? It's not fair! We're a lovely wonderful country, the nicest and best in the world.'

Until we're attacked. We fight back.

[one_who_pays_attention]

Fight back??? Iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11. Don't bring up that stupid, hoary old chestnut, for god's sake.
Nobody takes you remotely seriously any more on that subject.

[Son of the South™]

I think you meant 'a person of color chained to his bumper'.

[Che]

Who said anything about Iraq?

[Che]

<Slapping self> Don't feed the troll!

[one_who_pays_attention]

Oh, don't worry, I just write satire, like Methinks.

It's a satire site, right?

Although you'd never know.