The idea that suspending the Gas Tax for the summer is going to make any actual difference is ridiculous.
The Gas Tax is 18.4 cents a gallon. Assuming the average consumer uses 20 gallons of gas a week, thats a measly $3.68 off per week for 4 months.
Spare me the semantics. Exxon Mobil and Shell are posting record breaking all time quarterly profits while every cent of income is getting squeezed out of Middle Class America. Supply and Demand my ass, collusion at the highest of levels and the weakening dollar are the culprits.
What are you going to do about that?
Top 3 Authors for me
BOOK #9 - Sadly, I had never read any Vonnegut before. He may be my new favorite author. (Only Timequake will tell!)
I especially love this passage:
“He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for the wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them in the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.”
rach:
Does anyone out there know someone (family member, friend, distant acquantaince) who either owns or works on a vineyard? Thanks in advance.
A good friend’s family I grew up with owns and operates Westport Rivers Vineyard - http://www.westportrivers.com/ . Anything in particular you wanted to know?
