Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Gas Crisis of 2011 SOLVED!!!

Solving the world’s problems is a pastime of mine. I love sitting about and thinking to myself, or with others aloud, about how to solve the problems that creep into our lives. Somebody may say, “Jmy, what do you think about x,y,z?” My response, “Fire them all;” easy enough. It’s how it goes, you have questions, and ALL of us little humans have answers. I suspect all of us giving our answers has gotten us to the predicament we find ourselves in today. Too much government, odd lunatic groups, and the occasional war spurred on by some religion that feels another religion is not up to par…a level of par set forth by someone with a more grandiose idea of religion than the other poor lost soul.



Which brings me to America.



Here we are, much like last year,the year before and the year before that, worried how we are going to afford to eat, because we are worried our vehicle will cost more to feed than our families. It has happened all over the planet; we just happened to be behind on this particular front. My wife and I travel a great deal, and I automatically change my way of calculating fuel prices as soon as we get in the car to go on our travels. If I sit around and think.. a liter is X amount into a gallon into a dollar…I will go crazy. I love the metric system: if we need to travel 100 kilometers and I drive 80 kilometers per hour I will get there in 1.2 hours. Fabulous math. When it comes to fueling the cars though, I don’t want to do the math. In Europe it’s the arm-and-a-leg system…if you drive 100 km you better have a car that can go 60 km on a liter or you’re going to be paying an arm-and-a- leg for fuel. Not even a question when we go to Europe of how much money we take for fuel, it’s a question of finding the car that gets the best fuel economy.



Which brings me back to America. You’ll soon see many Americans trading in their large gas guzzling SUV’s for some tiny car that makes them feel less human, so they can continue driving to work, to the store, and to church. Then in a year, gas will go back down to closer to three dollars to the gallon, car lots will be loaded with unsold SUV’s with fantastic savings, and people will want to go buy a new “MUD SLINGER 2000!!! MEGA blah, blah.” Then they’ll get to the lot and the sales person will say, “You owe too much on your dinky Miser 1000,” and the person’s face will be sad, and they’ll be envious of the person that is still driving the SUV of their dreams, despite gas prices. It’s a horrible little circle drive.

I have solved your problem though, if you happen to be driving the Mud Slinger 2000 MEGA blah:

simple solution… fill up more often!! Same price at the pump, just more often!



Happy motoring America. It’s going to be one expensive, bumpy ride!!!