I’m so Mad I Could Run my Car on Spit!

Gas prices are an outrage! Now there’s a headline for our current times. What exactly is the cause of the skyrocketing price of gas anyway? Is there a shortage of crude oil somewhere? I don’t think so. I could certainly understand the run-away prices if there were a shortage, but that is simply not the case. So, what is it? I’ll tell you what it is. The rich are filthy rich and want to get richer.

Also, it has something to do with society in general. It’s no coincidence that along with the rising gas prices, we suddenly are seeing dozens of home businesses springing up all over the place, designed with one goal in mind: To save fuel and help you get better gas mileage. Do you think those businesses were a sudden jolt out of the blue, an inspiration hastily constructed? No. Those projects have been in the can for years, or even decades.

Now, the gas prices are in the clouds and new gas-saving products are on the market. Oh yeah, and your neighbor just bought a new hybrid car, one that runs on gas and electricity. Hmm, yet another interesting “coincidence” huh? Your other neighbor has a bunch of official-looking vans in his yard, and they appear to be installing a wind-mill on his property. A touch of class? An eye-sore? Or a grand idea whose time has come? You decide.

There are no coincidences in the world of riches. When gas prices go up they do so only because a group of rich people got together one day and decided for the good of themselves, to work in cahoots. So, the gas guys raise their prices for no apparent reason, and the fuel reformulating product people jump in to promote their stuff, at 30 to 40 bucks a bottle, no less. Then the auto makers get in on the deal by finally marketing a product they’ve kept on the shelf for years, hybrid cars, some of which run on just about anything.

Food prices also go up, as a direct result of the prohibitive cost of buying enough gas to keep the big rigs running to deliver the goods, this too, is a planned process. None of the dominoes fall for no reason, there’s always a purpose to it all. You could say that this article is paranoid and not factual, be my guest, but the facts always seem to point away from the I-can’t-help-it-I-have-to-raise-my-prices approach.

Recently, in my area, a gas station in town decided to try an experiment. They lowered their prices to an incredible $2.10. Yes, you read that correctly. Remember how a few years ago that price would have seemed outrageously high? Now it’s really, really low. Anyway, the predictable happened. That station had so many customers the cars were lined up to get in.

You would think that the success of that day’s sales would have inspired the owner to keep his prices down that low, right? Wrong. The sale price only lasted one day, and then rose back up to match all the other stations in town. Hmm, I wonder what happened there? You know the guy was making money hand over fist, so why did he raise his prices again? Simple. He was probably pressured into it. Nobody likes the little guy making too much money.

Want my advice? Fight back. Stop going out to eat a couple times a week. Buy all your groceries for the month all at once. Carpool to work whenever you can. Save money, save your gas. Stop giving your hard-earned cash to people who have never had to earn any. Eventually, they’ll take notice and those prices will go down again. I guarantee it.