Saint Jimmy

Just a few things...

Tonight the Missus has American idol on. It's Queen night and a few things will happen:

1) Most will butcher songs done by the best rock band in history making Freddy turn in his grave...

2) Randy will not like most singers and then when one comes along that he likes he will say "We got another hot one in da house!" and wave his fist in

the air.

3) Paula will say, "You know i'm one of your best fans, I didn't really like the song, but that being said..."

Anyway...

Met my new boss today. She drove from one end of New England 3 1/2 hours to the other end of New England. Luckily for her it is a business trip and she probably will get reimbursed for the gas it took to come on up.

Good thing considering the gouge is on.

Now of course GMA today had some interviews about this and the gas companies press folk come running up and say the same thing; It's the demand; It's reflective of events that happened three months ago; It's the war; It's this; It's that.

It's armed robbery sans the arms.

GMA went on to say that 70% of people out there say this is a hardship. The other 30% will call it a severe hardship.

So what's going on?

The Spring Equinox happened.

What does that have to do with it? Traditionally more people travel during this time of the year. The crumb-grinders and yard-apes will be done with school soon ( I know it's still April ) it's nice outside and spring fever spreads like wildfire through the endless eons of cubicles.

We want out.

And so we pay.

But then there's Saint Jimmy (a la Green day). What has Saint Jimmy done?


Saint Jimmy has just beat them at their own game. You know those emails that every single year come out and say it's don't buy gas day? They're purely a waste of the elcectricity used to power the computer. Even if everyone you knew didn't buy gas on that day it would only amount to a minor hiccup. And if it amounted to anything more they would get back the cost by raising the price a few more cents the next time you went back.

But what Saint Jimmy did....

A model I see online, A 2006 Honda Metropolitan runs around 1849.00.

Payments run anywhere from 39.00/Mo to I think something like 199.00 depending on when you want to pay it off.

And La piece de resistance?

A gas tank that even with these inflamatory prices takes less than three dollars to fill and gets roughly, according to Saint Jimmy, 90 miles to the gallon.

Hmmm...

You go to Bermuda and you see these things all over the place. It's not uncommon to see them lining the streets 50 of them in a row. Safety? It's only the tourists on these islands that get into accidents and that is because they forget which side of the road they're supposed to be on. But nothing is stopping you from buying a helmet and a leather jacket.

Sure, let's stay on the Bermuda example, gas is 5.00 a gallon (actually they're on the metric system so they fill 'er up in liters) but if it lasts you a couple of weeks or more what's the problem? How far do we really work from home anyway?

I'm not saying that we should get rid of all of our cars, after all you would need one to get groceries or drive around all of those kids you can't afford to and from soccer etc, plus in New England winters are, well lets just say they SUCK royally, so you need to hang onto that one. And in the meantime save yourself beacoup bucks (so you too can afford to go to Bermuda) and La piece de resistance....

Sock it to the gas companies...

Send this around in one of those emails....

Oh and Ace Young, go and pack your bags.