Typical Republican ideas for lowering gas prices

[sharp_stick]

I found this assholes response to a CNN question asking if $3.00 gas was hurting people.
At first I thought he was being sarcastic but after reading it a couple of times I really think this prick believes the shit he wrote. Especially his "brilliant" idea to occupy the oil fields so he can continue to drive his sorry ass around PA.

"Rising gasoline prices have caused me to drive faster, so I can arrive at my destination before I run out of gas! Seriously, I work out of the immediate area, so my fuel consumption won't be affected by rising prices for quite a while. I DO shop around, and try to schedule my fill-ups to previously-known cheaper fuel sites (Costco off route 30 in Lancaster, Giant on Route 15 near Harrisburg, Hess on Route 422 in Douglasville, and Getty on Route 15 just south of Point Of Rocks). My favorite (and best-mileage) car requires premium (92+ octane) fuel, and I last paid $3.039/gallon in Chester County (less in Berks County). Lorton, Virginia, wanted $3.139 per gallon (for premium) last night (they didn't get it!). I decry the use of ethanol or other non efficiency (oxygenating) additives to my motor fuel, long for a return to tetraethyl lead, and see electric cars recharged by nuclear power plants as a long-term solution for the upcoming oil availability crisis (we need oil more for plastics and medicines). I also foresee our retaking, probably militarily, of the nationalized oil facilities we developed in the Middle East and 'lost' in the sixties and seventies to increasingly-nationalistic indigenous peoples (this may be offset in time into the future) by appropriate occupation and control of the Iranian oil fields. But that's just me! Nobody writes songs about cars anymore (e.g. - "Little GTO", "409" "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "Mustang Sally," "Dead Man's Curve," etc. - aren't Lexis and Beamers emotion-inspiring, or has the 'sameness" of design removed the "mystique" of driving 'good' iron?

Larry Schear, East Coventry, Pennsylvania"

on edit, fixed typos from typing too fast.

[Initech]

1. Is it possible to have a negative IQ?

Because from the looks of it, this guy may be the first...

[RufusEarl]

6. A negative IQ, thats very funny!

[CottonBear]

2. Larry is a complete and total moran.

:( How the hell does he get better gas mileage by driving faster? :eyes: :(

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "long for a return to tetraethyl lead"

Perhaps his mother had a little too much exposure to it during pregnancy.

Can you say "fucking asshole"?

[sharp_stick]

5. I think he enjoyed sniffing the funes n/t

[Atman]

4. This was actually an old Johnny Carson joke! Seriesly!

You young kids may not remember Carson, but he was the King. Better than Leno and Letterman combined (which is faint praise, I suppose). Anyway, Carson had an old bit during the oil embargo of the seventies, wherein he offered excuses dumb people told cops to get out of tickets for exceeding the newly imposed national 55mph speed limit. One was, "But officer, I was just trying to get to the filling station before I ran out of gas!"

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Dear Larry, how do I acquire 'god' status like you and * have?

How can indigenous people possibly be sitting on 'our' oil?

[B Calm]

8. Before plastics, there was a product called cellophane. Didn't

require oil to make it either! Not only that, it was environmental friendly..

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

9. GO DUCKS!! nt

[MikeNearMcChord]

10. I wonder if the RW talkers are out there saying

it's the taxes that the government takes is what makes the prices high? Funny when oil companies reported record profits, you did not hear a peep.

[Lefty48197]

11. Here's what the Republicans would really suggest

1) Cut the gas taxes. Saving that 5 or 10 cents a gallon will sure solve the problem of $2.899 gallons of gas.
2) Let the American people have tax free savings accounts to help pay for gasoline.
3) Cut the income tax to help people pay for gasoline.
4) Cut taxes for businesses so that they will cut their prices and help consumers have enough money to pay for gasoline
etc. etc. etc.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. Remove all Enviromental regulations for more refineries

never mind that they will not get built as the oil companies enjoy a tighter supply.