Posted on 05/26/2011 9:12:38 AM PDT by greatplains
As you pump 13 gallons into your Honda CR-V -- American's best-selling SUV with 28 mpg on the highway and 21 in town -- it's nearly impossible to view the $50 you're spending with a positive attitude.
With the national average for regular at $3.81, it's easy to label oil executives as pond scum, but try to remain open-minded. Think of the big picture: Though that promised road trip to Disney World has gone up in carbon monoxide, high gas prices may actually have an upside. Not for you and your family personally, maybe, but perhaps for the United States as a whole. What if gas hit $5 a gallon? Here are some benefits (and we're serious about most of them):
-Fewer people would die on the road.
-Demand for high-mileage cars could grow.
-Shorter security lines
-Less Pollution
-Less Congestion
-High prices lead to lower prices.
-More exercise
-End of wars
-Local Business could profit
-It's all about democracy
(Excerpt) Read more at money.msn.com ...
Well, Lynn, OK. Take a salary cut, get out of that car, and walk!
Democracy in action!
Better yet...
With more companies unable to afford the high energy prices, more people would end up unemployed, and the fewer the people employed, the less the need for oil. Win/win. ;)
I’m assuming the article is satire.
Yep, high gas prices in Europe did all those things...right?
And then they wonder why, in clueless amazement, people keep turning to Fox News.
down is up during a dimocrat regime.
This was orginally posted 4/19....I wonder what was edited on may 25th?
I’ll have to dig out the post and compare...
Probably written by someone who doesn’t have a car.
What about people who live where they have to drive? What about people who have to drive for work? You arrogant liberals never think about them, do you?
It’s not satire...liberalism is a mental disorder...the author is stoner serious....
Wrong as hell...but serious...
You nailed it.
What? He doesn't?
Never mind.
It’s not satire...liberalism is a mental disorder...the author is stone serious....
Wrong as hell...but serious...
Remember this interview from before the election?
"Obama's gonna pay for my mortgage and my gas!" - Peggy the Moocher.
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Lynn Mucken—You are a brain dead mindless idiot.
-Fewer people would die on the road. (Yeah, but will hang themselves because of their poverty. That’s a wonderful benefit of your proposal for a 3rd world country)
-Demand for high-mileage cars could grow. (As if anyone could buy them unemployed thanks to the mega cost of gas??)
-Shorter security lines (Really? Because no one can afford to go anywhere?)
-Less Pollution (Unless you discount the burning cities caused from the unemployed masses)
-Less Congestion (Yeah, for the governing elite)
-High prices lead to lower prices. (What?? Is this woman a complete zombie?)
-More exercise (You mean from the rioters running from the riot police?)
-End of wars (Right—just like in 1918.)
-Local Business could profit (From what? Selling sawdust bread?)
-It’s all about democracy (Idiot. We don’t have a democracy—we have a representative republic(or used to). But I wouldn’t expect a dimwit living in a womb of stupidity to even know this. Just crawl back into your fantasy hole now.)
Not for you and your family personally, maybe, but perhaps for the United States as a whole...
We ARE the United States as a whole. - It is us.
I would gladly pay $10 a gallon, if it helps us get that bastard Obama and the dems out of power.
And the way the media tries to soothe us over is an example of Newspeak.
“With the national average for regular at $3.81, it’s easy to label oil executives as pond scum”
C’mon, Lynn Mucker - you’re shilling for Barack when you try to blame the oil companies for the prohibition of drilling for American oil, inflating the dollar and generally making America the tail, if it ever gets wagged. You’re just another Liberal Socialist and we didn’t need another one of them.
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