Bull rider Bret Summers stands by cattle at the Dearing Ranch, in Deer Park, Wash., Sept. 14, 2006. Due to high gas prices, Summers carpools with his fellow competitors to rodeo events. (AP Photo/Amy Sinisterra, File)
Bull rider Bret Summers stands by cattle at the Dearing Ranch, in Deer Park, Wash., Sept. 14, 2006. Due to high gas prices, Summers carpools with his fellow competitors to rodeo events. (AP Photo/Amy Sinisterra, File)
Who cares? They don't vote Democrat (and PETA's not a cowboy fan either).
(/sarcasm)
Now there's a niche victim...
Yippie Ki Yay!!
I did not put this in Extended, honest. :-)
(altho I have rodeo kin in Montana)
Now with gas prices falling, in some places below $2/gallon, these cowboy-babies lose their victimhood status. Cry me a river!
I Vote Suck It Up,,,,Cowboy On,,,
Brokebank Mountain.
The aarticle's a little dated. gas prices are plummeting. I've seen about a $0.30/gal. drop in prices in the past few weeks. So far, the bottom doesn't appear to be in sight (says he with crossed fingers - I'm not an oil patch guy!).
" Due to high gas prices, Summers carpools with his fellow competitors to rodeo events"
The horror!
I live in the Midwest and could travel anywhere in the US (roundtrip of 4,000 miles) and the fuel expense would be about $180 more at $3/ gal than at $2/ gal. That really wouldn't be so prohibitive to keep someone from driving on a vacation or other type of trip IMHO. I generally drive a full size Buick for work and drive about 500 miles a week for business. The difference in fule that I spend per week between $2 or $3 a gallon is around $25 a week.
Jeez, I didn't know a bull-buster's life was that impecunious. Why any man (esp. w/family) would do all this for so little $$ is hard to comprehend. $600,000.00 for eleven years work? Now way Jose! Not to mention this little matter of getting smashed up on a regular basis.