Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Summer Surpises

So Bush is in the middle of a five week "working" vacation. Is there anything really surprising about that, knowing what we know about our "Relaxation" President. In 2001, he took a similar vacation. What has surprised me this summer is that the American public is not really that up in arms about the high gasoline prices. They're downright docile about it. Now, if we had a President Kerry in the Summer of 2005 and were experiencing the same high gas prices, you know the American public would call for his lynching - a la Jimmy Carter.

Most people do realize that any president doesn't have a lot of control over gas prices, but we like to have someone to blame. That's why I don't understand our blase attitude on this issue. Well, I for one am just glad I don't have a gas guzzler and in a perverse way, I'm kind of enjoying the escalating prices. Because maybe, when gas hits a certain price, the American public will demand American ingenuity come up with alternatives to gasoline. But I'm betting the public's first step will be to shed or simply not purchase these big gas guzzling SUVs.

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Gas Guzzlers and W

Whenever I'm driving around DC metro and a big gas guzzling SUV - like a Suburban or a Bronco - passes me off, I can just about guarantee there's gonna be a "W" sticker on that thing. Probably with Texas plates, to boot. Boy, that is one thing I'm not going to miss in three years when all those big SUVs head back to Red country in W's retirement. It's no wonder why the Repugs just won't address our insatiable thirst for gas-guzzling SUVs and their low MPG standards. They're all here driving them. But, no, that would infringe on our inalienable rights as Americans, though they never mind infringing on issues surrounding our bedroom activities, but I digress. But with a new Democratic administration in three years, those big SUV eyesores will be replaced with an armada of clean, green machines on the DC roads. And a Dem will begin the process of weaning us off those gas-loving, Middle East-fellating SUVs. Sadly, eight years later than it could have been. America hang on.

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