SwEET JEEPERS!

[D'Snowth]

Average gas prices were at $3.63 as of yesterday and this morning!

As we speak, the average just shot up to $4.23! By the end of the day, it's going to be over $5.00, and already several gas stations are drained dry of gas completely!

How the hElmo are people supposed to AFFORD this crap? ! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, BUSH? !

 

[MrsPepper]

Average gas prices were at $3.63 as of yesterday and this morning!

As we speak, the average just shot up to $4.23! By the end of the day, it's going to be over $5.00, and already several gas stations are drained dry of gas completely!

How the hElmo are people supposed to AFFORD this crap? ! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, BUSH? !

Ugh, yeah, it's SO ridiculous. I'm lucky because I can walk and take public transit. But people who have to take cars are quite screwed over.

 

[D'Snowth]

But people who have to take cars are quite screwed over.

Newsflash: MrsPepper has just delivered the understatement of the year.

She's slated to receive a plaque and a citation at the end of the day.

Details at eleven.

 

[Drtooth]

Average gas prices were at $3.63 as of yesterday and this morning!

As we speak, the average just shot up to $4.23! By the end of the day, it's going to be over $5.00, and already several gas stations are drained dry of gas completely!

How the hElmo are people supposed to AFFORD this crap? ! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, BUSH? !

The Hurricane for one thing. But other than that, there is NO CALL FOR A 60 PRICE INCREASE IN ONE DAY! NO CALL!

 

[D'Snowth]

The Hurricane for one thing.

I know. The thing of it is, these guys should be trying to help US, not themselves!

But other than that, there is NO CALL FOR A 60 PRICE INCREASE IN ONE DAY! NO CALL!

Hear! Hear! Amen!

 

[Drtooth]

I say... FOR GET IT! What's gonna happen is everyone's gonna be ultra-PO'd at Shrub, but not enough to not elect a like minded jerk who wants "Change" by doing the same crap his predicessor did.

If you ask me, the US dug its own grave here, and thet're gonna keep digging.

 

[Baby Gonzo]

There are several reasons for the price increase. Speculation is absurd and the fear of gas going up has put people into a panic mode. Now people are scurrying to feel up their tanks, further increasing demand when supply is down. Not to mention, OPEC went up on the price of fuel per barrel the other day. Ike couldn't have come at a worse time.

 

[Drtooth]

I'd love to take the greed sack speculators and take away all their blood money. These slimey wastes of human life are ruining the economy, and they don't care whose feet they step on.

Gas will hit 5 dollars a barrel, and we'll have a president next term giving the oil company another free ride cuz they're too afraid to drop their corrupted political party.

 

[wwfpooh]

Right. Indeed, politics now is a lot like my wrestling show in that whilst one is trying to fix what's broken (for McCain, it's the weakened Republican Party & for McMahon, it's the WWE's annual buyrates and overall product), the other is demanding "change" in a similar domineering fashion (i.e. inmates running the asylum; think The Clique--that is, nWo & DX members unified--and all those who [by association] are a part of that unified group).

Unfortunately, merely trying to fix what's broken (McCain) or simply reconstructing a "new world order" out of a crumbling nation by choosing to further "break it down" (Obama) isn't doing us average Joe's any favors, as either choice leaves us with pretty much "no chance in h-e-ll" of having things return to the happily oblivious glory days of old.

It's like Vince attempting to fix what's broken by trying to relive The Attitude Era, only to have The Clique usher in new people with their own views of how things should be run, given how the Attitude has died off with most of the Attitude guys being either retired, fired, or on their last legs.

Or better yet, it's like the Street now in that we classic fans could do without Elmo's World--or at least, the annoying parts of it--and yet, we know that fans of today couldn't live without every aspect of Elmo's World.

What we need is a balance: In Vince's case, using the talent in ways that would make most Attitude fans want to return, but yet, doing so with new-school flare (like they're doing with Kane in possibly remasking him, but yet, giving him a new-school edge [or how they merged the themes from every version of RAW together for the XV anniversary of the show]); In the Street's case, using Elmo's World only when Elmo's not the central character in the show's regular Street scene (like as was seen in a few of this season's first few episodes); In the world's case, fixing those things that need fixing, reworking those things that could be reworked, and nixing those things that--for the common public--ought to be nixed.

 

[MrsPepper]

Newsflash: MrsPepper has just delivered the understatement of the year.

She's slated to receive a plague and a citation at the end of the day.

Details at eleven.

Rofl! I hope you mean a plaque, though; please don't send me a PLAGUE!