You idiots whining about gas prices should have thought about that when you decided to rely on cars

[taterguy]

In the interest of unity I thought I'd toss a subject out there that you can all agree on.

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[mtnester]

1. Did you bring your duck along? You might need it as backup

:)

[JVS]

2. We have candidates to bash here and you distract us with some bullshit about cars?

Welcome to ignore, asshole!

;-)

[Jersey Devil]

6. A terrible waste of our valuable time!!

The only thing is, if our time is so valuable, then how the hell do we spend so much time here?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

31. lol

[taterguy]

40. Again?

What kind of asshole puts someone on ignore and then changes their mind 15 minutes later?

And why am I asking a question to someone that has me on ignore?

[JVS]

42. The kind of asshole that believes in forgiveness.

[taterguy]

44. Forgive maybe. Forget never

[Jersey Devil]

3. Not me! My horse is saddled up and raring to go

[BigDaddy44]

7. But have you checked the price of oats lately?!?!?!?!?

[NightWatcher]

4. I would ride on duck power, but it takes a thousand to pull my sled

[Adelante]

5. Heh

:D

[bunnies]

8. Next month will make it two years since Ive driven a car.

So THERE! :P

edit: cuz I fucked up my smiley

[stevenleser]

45. Going on five years for me...

... NYC Metrocard!

[2008]

9. your horses poop on our streets!

and your half-wit children throw that poop at our cars!

[Drunken Irishman]

10. Damn that Eisenhower and his fucking interstate highway system!

[JVS]

14. It all goes back to HITLER and his Autobahn!

[shain from kane]

16. Kraftwerk. n/t

[taterguy]

17. Fucking nihilists

[slackmaster]

29. Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism

At least it was an ETHOS!

[JVS]

18. oohhhh yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wIfFGJoTjI

[taterguy]

27. I thought Al Gore Sr was responsible for that

Really.

[Drunken Irishman]

32. I think Eisenhower championed it.

[cali]

11. My car runs on pure hope

[JVS]

15. but it's lubricated with the blood of infants.

infants who support hillary! buwahahahahahahahahah!

[bunnies]

19. not cool.

:spank:

[taterguy]

20. The ignore feature is your friend

[KLee]

12. It's not my fault...

my tri-cycle quit working;(

[KLee]

13. duplicate

[LiberalAndProud]

21. But there was a hay shortage,

and my horse threw a shoe. I woodn't uv bought a car if I coulda known that Boosh was gonna Booshwack me at the pump.

[killbotfactory]

22. It was all my fault, sorry.

Back in the fifties, the president asked me if it was a good idea to base our economy around a finite resource which makes us ridiculously dependent on foreign nations across the globe and would require the largest military in the world to guarantee our access to those resources. I said, "sure it is!", and that was that.

Sorry about all that. Hindsight is 20/20 and everything.

[taterguy]

23. Dude, what were you thinking?

[killbotfactory]

24. I don't know.

Must have been the wacky tobaccy, or lack of it.

[taterguy]

46. Did you come up with 24 hour convenience stores too?

Only folks using wacky tobaccy need snack food at 3:00 AM

[RiverStone]

25. 3 months ago I sold my pick up and bought a 20 year ol Honda

...CRX HF - 45 MPG.

Yea, it sucks that I can't haul a cord of wood anymore - but, most of us have to make tough choices to not only save $$$, but keep that carbon-footprint as small as possible.

[AlCzervik]

26. my car runs on awesome.

awesome is for closers!

[Political Heretic]

28. I didn't "decide" to rely on cars.

Poor and working class Americans aren't "whining" - they are struggling. And they didn't "decide" to rely on cars. They often don't have a choice.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. Most of us don't live in San Francisco or New England.

We're not jammed up close together and mass transit is a joke.
We have to have cars. Even if we had adequate mass transit, it still wouldn't go everywhere you need to go, especially in a town that is 40 miles across.

[taterguy]

34. Is there some law I'm unaware of that mandates usage of automobiles?

If not, then technically you have choices, even if they're not very good choices.

Go ahead, take out all of your anger and frustration on me, instead of wasting it bickering about Hillary and Obama.

[Political Heretic]

35. Yes, some of us have the choice between using a car or not feeding our children.

You're right, we have choices.

[taterguy]

39. Apparently you chose to live far away from where you work and shop

Bad call, bro

[Political Heretic]

47. Not everyone "choses" that either

Sometimes you take any job you can find, when the options are slim to none and don't have the luxury of guaranteeing one that isn't "far away."

[taterguy]

48. Why not just admit it?

Back when gas was cheap and plentiful people thought that it was best for their families to live out in the middle of nowhere.

The fact that their gas-hogging lifestyle had a negative impact on the rest of the world didn't matter to them.

Well . . .

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

[slackmaster]

30. I'll give up my black UN Weapons Inspector SUV when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

:nuke:

[progressive_realist]

36. Let's talk about what REALLY pisses me off -- ethanol.

WTF? I can drink that, and people want to put it in their cars? When I'm paying $20 for a plain vodka & soda, you bet I'm going to be whining too. Heck, more than whining, I'll be organizing work parties to go out with sledgehammers and pickaxes and dismantle your precious asphalt highways.

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and :sarcasm: just in case anyone needs it

[taterguy]

38. Fight the Power!

[OmahaBlueDog]

43. What pisses me off is that..

..after the ethanol plant has gone to all the trouble to make pure, 200% hooch, the government makes them denature it with 15% gasoline to make it undrinkable.

[IDemo]

37. The cost of filling up your tank isn't ultimately the worst part of high gas prices

The cost of growing, processing, and trucking food to the shelf is going to wind up hurting more. That, and the impact of high fuel costs on the economy in general.

[OmahaBlueDog]

41. My nephew works in a restaurant, and tells me...

.. that restaurants still routinely pay to have fryer grease taken away. Given that all one needs to convert a diesel vehicle to biodiesel are hotter glow plugs, a few easily obtained chemicals, a pump, and a filter -- I'd say people are giving away fuel if you're smart enough to find it.