Oooh I was sooooo pissed when I heard this on Fox News a few weeks back. (On Neil Cavuto’s show no less!) No seriously I was furious! What is wrong with these people? Do they want to ruin the economy and kill people world wide?
1. I live in the middle of the Mohave Desert. It’s hot here and lots of empty space between everything. We already pay more for gas here than most of the nation, and you can see every rise in price affect things locally. Do these morons think good just “appear” in stores or on their doorsteps? NO! They’re DRIVEN there by disel using trucks and good old disel/electric trains. (Trains are really good though, but they only go certain places.) You double the cost of fuel that price is passed along ALL ALONG THE SUPPLY CHAIN!
2. “Reduced mobility.” Okay these city folks LOVE to say “Use Mass Transit” or “take fewer trips.” That’s all fine and dandy for THEM. What about those of us who don’t have grocery stores in town, who are 30 miles away from the nearest store and there are NO mass transit systems in the area. How about those of us who would hate living in the “Hives” we call cities and prefer to live in the wide open spaces of this wonderful country? What about that age old passtime the road trip? Have you seen the road to Vegas/Laughlin/the Colorado River EVERY FRIKIN WEEKEND? Do you want to kill the economies that depend on that traffic? (Like here in Barstow or my hometown of Needles.)
3. We’re already seeing Air carriers going out of buisness due to higher operating costs, and folks are complaining about every little fee imaginable and with good reason. Do we want to kill a whole section of our economy or force it into government control like Amtrak? (Which is a joke let me tell you!)
4. How about the space industry? Let’s kill off another sector I’m in why don’t we? Currently I’m 90 miles away from the nearest town (in the middle of Fort Irwin) and we were responsible for getting the Phoenix down. Can you imagine the gas costs for an entire NASA complex that HAS to be far away from cities and town that cause RFI?
So let’s see let’s kill off the Auto industry, the air industry, tourist based communities, rural communities, increase the cost of everything that’s transported, increase the cost to produce everything (since it costs money to get supplies to make stuff!), oh and starve those worldwide? Yeah that’s a plan. FU morons!
