Holy gas pump robbery, Batman!

I couldn't beleive my eyes yesterday. Driving past the gas station, I looked at the price of regular gas, and I had to look again, thinking I must have seen wrong. But no I hadn't. $1.20 a litre. Holy fucking shit!

This is robbery! We all know the government helps fix the price of gas and that close to half of the said price is taxes. Un-fucking-believable! I think it would be fun to have Lee's point of view on the government's participation in this. :-)

Now I think that many people out there have received that email telling everyone not to buy a single drop of gas on a certain day to send a message to the gas companies. The message is saying that that kind of pressure will cause the gas companies to lose millions. Well I hate to burst your bubble, but that won't happen. If no one buys any gas, not one single drop, for one day, that just means that the next day, twice as many people will be buying gas. So all you will have accomplished will be to postpone the profits to the gas companies by 24 hours. It won't do a thing to lower the price again.

Unfortunately, our society is too dependant on gas. One solution would be to leave our vehicles at home and walk/bike/take public transportation. It would also help with the global warming thing. But it's up to individual people to decide what to do, I'm not gonna start promoting that like those Greenpeace tree-huggers. Some people have been fighting the high gas prices by filing up and driving off, without paying. But then, they are no better than the crooks in the government and the gas companies.