Recently, a magazine put out a Top Ten Reasons To Like $4 Gas. Let’s look at this list…
1) Globalized jobs return home- Right! Like the huge companies are going to drop “slave labor” for $10 an hour Americans. Mom & Pop shops will not change the economy, they haven’t yet!
2) Sprawl stalls- With a rise in crime, as more of the cheap-skate rich stay closer to the poor. As the crooks steal from them, since it is so close to the bus stop. Then drug use rises as well, since the rich are now so close to the drug sellers, its so close to the bus stop.
3) Four-day Work weeks- This isn’t too bad; but then which four days? Try getting anything done at City Government during your day off. Oops! Their closed, too. You’ll get moe done at home…Not! You have less time to do it, plus the Salery people will still have to come in on weekends, just work will have the A/C off, since the majority of people aern’t there.
4) Less Pollution- Not! If #1 happens, companies will produce more. (If they do bring plants back. Insert screaming Environmentalists here).
5) More Frugality- In a Consumer driven society, not if the lobbyists have anything to say about it or Film Producers, or those people’s whose job it is to make us want to buy their crap.
6) Fewer Traffic Deaths- Driving slower, maybe. More drunks because of job lose definitely.
7) Cheaper Insurance- What lower profit, are you nuts!
8 ) Less Traffic- Only in the places that have REAL Public means of transportation and regulate traffic (insert California fruits & nuts here). Most of the US has rolled up their Train tracks for Bike trails. Right, Joe blue-collar is going to ride over 1-mile to work on a bicycle, then think weather…Not! Or have to get up two hours earlier and home two hours later to catch buses that still leave him walking for a mile…Double Not! Don’t even ask him to vote for a tax raise to provide for a bus route or pay for more buses, especially in Florida.
9) More Cops on the beat- Only in big cities, most of South Dakota is an hour anywhere by car…think hot states again on this one (can only take so much off), or the Wisconsin winters (pay more for their clothes)!
10) Less Obesity- Not! Health food costs will go up even more because of shipping; junk food will be cheaper, like it is now.eating “healthy’ costs too much!
All-in-all this list is an attempt to appease and cull the non-thinkers and make the “Don’t Care” rich feel like its ok to rape the land. It was also written for the person in the City; who for the most part has no idea about the world beyond; unless it’s in the NEWS (which is very suspect). But what do you expect from the Entertainment business; their not here for us, their here for them.
