Gas Prices, Cell Phones, and the Detroit Lions
by Barry Bauer
You probably think that the old rule of supply and demand still holds true and that’s why our gasoline prices keep going up. Well you’re wrong! We’re refining so much gasoline, diesel fuel and aircraft fuel in this country that it’s become our number one export!
On the other side of the coin, Oblama is going to have to decide whether to let Canada build the Keystone pipeline to Texas where apparently we have an over abundance of refinery capacity (that’s not what we’ve been told) or tell us we have to cut back on our usage. You know, stay home or pay higher prices at the pump.
Why?
So in fact there isn’t a shortage of gasoline, and there isn’t a shortage of oil. That means the price of gasoline at the pump is manufactured by the big boys in government and the big boys in the oil industry.
Neither group is representing us.
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Like a lot of older people, I find the latest in electronic equipment a bit overwhelming sometimes. A lot of people are into texting on their cell phones. Some people even admit they text while going to the bathroom. At my age going to the bathroom is the number one priority, not texting.
I own one of the cheapest cell phone services on Earth. It’s called a TracFone. It’s less than ten dollars a month and it comes with so many minutes per month which I don’t even come close to using. I just need to know I’m able to get in touch with somebody if I get myself in trouble.
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I didn’t stay up for New Year’s Eve. I had to prepare for the Lions game the next day with the Packers. I practiced yelling, screaming, hollering, coaching, cussing, getting a few more bad words from my cuss book that’s stored on the tall shelf where the grandkids can’t get at it, and swear some more. I throw myself on the floor, kick my feet, get back up and swear again.
Yes it’s quite a sight!
The Lions were two defensive backs short during the game. By that I mean they should have thirteen defensive players on the field instead of the regulation eleven.
Anyway, none of what I did helped because we lost! Personally I’d rather lose the last game of the regular season to them and beat them in the playoffs!
We’ll get to see if my theory works if we survive Saturday night against New Orleans.
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Do you know if they sell socks with holes already in the heels? Why waste time doing it myself? At first I thought they’d be a little cheaper with less material in them, but maybe that’s not true because I haven’t found any of those socks in the stores yet.
In the old days they used to put a light bulb in the sock and repair the hole by darning it. Nowadays just about everything is a throw way.
That’s why we don’t see TV repair shops anymore, we just throw them out.
Until the next time . . .