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QueenAdrock
08-22-2005, 05:09 PM
Bush: I'm George W. Bush and I approved this ad.

Announcer: Some people have wacky ideas. Like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That’s John Kerry. He supported a 50 cent a gallon gas tax. If Kerry’s tax increase were law, the average family wouldpay $657 more a year.

Raising taxes is a habit of Kerry’s. He supported higher gasoline taxes 11 times. Maybe John Kerry just doesn’t understand what his ideas mean to the rest of us.
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Mind you, Kerry had supported the gas tax 10 YEARS before this ad was created, when gas was $1.01 on average.

I remember in fall of 2004, everyone said "Kerry's going to raise gas prices?! That's insane, it's already $1.80 most places, that means it'll be *gasp* $2.30 most places!!" So in a panic, those feeble-minded scared sheep voted for Bush, KNOWING that gas prices would stay low.

National average today: $2.61 (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2005-08-22-weekly-gas-price_x.htm).
King PSYZ
08-22-2005, 05:20 PM
It's $3.50 in LA according to quite a few friends.
catatonic
08-22-2005, 05:24 PM
My officemate described Bush as an angel, divine, and a sacred man. People here in Utah are kept pretty ignorant.
QueenAdrock
08-22-2005, 05:26 PM
It's $3.50 in LA according to quite a few friends.

For regular or supreme? Holy crap on a stick!

Cheapest we have here is $2.65, but there's at least two people waiting for each pump, at any given time of day.
King PSYZ
08-22-2005, 05:31 PM
regular, and local news has already warned of it hitting $3.00 in las vegas anytime now
ChrisLove
08-22-2005, 06:16 PM
90 p alitre here so I think thats about $7 a gallon. But the our cars dont use much and we dont have so far to go!
QueenAdrock
08-22-2005, 06:50 PM
I really wish we'd start looking more at alternative fuels, and not this coal shit (from what I last heard).

I'm pretty broke, so it looks like pretty soon I'll have to steal a horse and let him eat out of the nearby fields. Either that or purchase a siphon.

Hmm.
infidel
08-22-2005, 07:06 PM
I'm thinking about hiring an illegal alien to pull me around in a rickshaw. ;)
King PSYZ
08-22-2005, 07:35 PM
I really wish we'd start looking more at alternative fuels, and not this coal shit (from what I last heard).

I'm pretty broke, so it looks like pretty soon I'll have to steal a horse and let him eat out of the nearby fields. Either that or purchase a siphon.

Hmm.
I was watching the news earlier and they showed a fryer oil conversion vehicle (it was diesel) and that they're building a ethanol plant to start turning out more ethanol as well.
The fryer oil car is basicly free to run, some resturaunts are even known to pay people to take it away. 5 minutes to pump, 5 minutes to filter and your car smells like french fries.
QueenAdrock
08-22-2005, 09:01 PM
Yeah, my soils professor from last semester (yes, soils IS a class) had a son who had a french-fry car. It could also run off of chicken grease from KFC, so it smelled like fast food whenever he drove.

I'd probably get reeeeeeeeeal hungry driving that.
D_Raay
08-23-2005, 02:47 AM
My officemate described Bush as an angel, divine, and a sacred man. People here in Utah are kept pretty ignorant.
One of my good friends is a Mormon, and I am happy to say, although conservative, he thinks Bush is the absolute worst President ever.
Ali
08-23-2005, 03:00 AM
90 p alitre here so I think thats about $7 a gallon. But the our cars dont use much and we dont have so far to go!90p is CHEAP! You only get that at Supermarkets and places like that.

And diesel costs MORE than petrol in UK... WTF is all that about? Here in France, Diesel costs less (so we all drive little diesels).