$$ Gasoline Surcharge… a personal story.

[TheGoodCitizen]

Today at a transportation company I work for, the owner added a two dollar surcharge that our clients must pay “until the price of gasoline gets back down to $1.95 a gallon and stays there for a while”.

I had such a wonderful time explaining this to our clients. “The economy is doing so poorly and with the price of gasoline” blah, blah, blah, “ we have no choice, but once it gets back down to $1.95 and stays there for a while, then the surcharge will be removed.” :shrug:

A few were really silent, no defense! Total submission! They knew the guy they voted for twice and rally behind was partly if not totally to blame for this. By the way, I live in a REDneck state… and not to say that I’m a price gouging corporate doo doo head. It was more like a “SEE, I TRIED TO TELL YOU BUSH WAS FUCKING EVERYTHING UP AND YOU DIDN’T WANT TO HEAR IT, NOW YOU HAVE TO” kind of a thing. I started to feel like I was taking some people to the school of hard knocks! :spank:

Then there was a different kind of thing going on, for example, all I said to one guy was “we are adding a $2 surcharge” and he was like “YEAH I BET THIS ECONOMY IS TERRIBLE”. Some of the subtle language and innuendo’s we were using back and forth was terribly funny. Of course I felt sorry for some and a few could have cared less either way.

Living in the Midwest, I am surrounded by apathetic people that will not wake up until they are DIRECTLY effected by the nightmare that is Bush… Today, if only in a small way, some people in the Midwest were directly effected, I talked with them about it, and it felt great!

:patriot:

[lapfog_1]

1. It will be a while

Today... Iraqi insurgents, in the last "throes" of their struggle,
managed to THROW and RPG round into one of the main refineries
in Iraq, and it will be a long time before that is fixed...
coupled with the news that up to 40 percent of the Gulf of
Mexico Oil will be unavailable for at least 4 to 5 days as Dennis
the Menace moves through. (The oil companies have stopped pumping
crude already and evacuated the platforms).

Not to mention that the increased production promised by Shrubya's
good buddies the Saudis has not materialized.

China will continue to lock up both production and reserves in
a global race for crude stocks...

And I think the Bushies have known this was coming for a long time...
hence the unending effort, despite record high prices, to top off
the national strategic reserve.

[RummyTheDummy]

2. It will be awhile as in....

Never. We'll never see that price again. Ever.

[lapfog_1]

5. Yeah, I've just got to take the time to find the sarcasm

emoticon.

I was being sarcastic there.

T Boone is saying $3.00 a gallon gasoline by years end. I doubt
seriously that we will ever see it drop back by 1/3rd anytime
soon... as in never again in my lifetime. Course, I remember
$.25/gallon.


more song lyrics... somehow appropriate for tonight.
......

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore!

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

[TheGoodCitizen]

6. They've been breaking us in with the fluctuating prices....

for some time now.

Raise it 19 cents per gallon... a week later lower it 2 cents and everyone's pleased as punch.

I agree, we will never see it anywhere near $1.95 a gallon again. But if you got a Speedway gas card you can knock off 2 cents per gallon, hell of a deal! ;)

[lapfog_1]

7. I'm in CA... Bay Area

gas here is mostly $2.59 and up... I haven't seen $3.xx yet, but
its just a matter of time.

Cheapest out here is Rotten Robbie or World Gas, both are smaller
retailers with few stations, but they are cheaper by at least
a nickel per gallon compared to the majors.

[TheGoodCitizen]

9. DAMN...

It's $2.36 here in the Midwest.

I think I'll go for a bike ride tomorrow instead of driving.

[RummyTheDummy]

11. $2.17 in Oklahoma City

Not bad, not good either. Also starting to notice a lot of "No unleaded" signs taped to pumps at some stations this week.

[TheGoodCitizen]

13. "No unleaded" signs taped to pumps ??

Do you think they are price gouging? Or are we running out of unleaded gasoline?

[cynatnite]

3. I tried to convince my rw mother that bush policies is why

and she calls me the crazy one :eyes:

on edit: hubby is a truck driver and even as a company driver he's feeling it. Freight is going to hit another slow down because of fuel prices. If his job, owner operaters and other drivers get hit too hard by the prices...you bet it'll hit the entire marketplace.

It already has to some degree. The price of durable goods will continue to rise.

How many times can we be fucked by this regime? Is there a limit?

[TheGoodCitizen]

8. There seems to be NO limit...

and yes, it WILL effect everything. Anything and everything that's transported will put a dent in your pocketbook.

I'm pretty lucky, my entire family, minus my Republican Baptist Preacher Brother ("morals" voter), knows what Bush is up to... and they don't like it one bit.


(edit: poor grammar)

[PA Mamma]

4. Actually from what I ...

understand this sur-charge practice is everywhere, now. I pay an extra $2.50 on my food co-op order among others.

[TheGoodCitizen]

10. I don't see the wages increasing either...

....most everyone I talk with these days are either looking for a job or working 70 hours a week to support their families.

[Mairead]

12. Everyone needs to buy CitGo so part of the money goes to a good cause

But overall, this is the problem with Capitalism. Capitalists have always treated the earth as though it's both a limitless reservoir and limitless sink. Now we're the ones who are going to get stuck with the check, not them.

Unless we act together to change things.

Anyone think that will happen?