Oil Me Baby
If anyone wishes to read up on some oil rants, please visit my friend Zack Perry's site.
Zack will contend that the world economy revolves around a bunch of dinosaurs that died millions of years ago and now end up in our gas tanks.
I can't say I disagree.
Think about this, a college friend of mine majoring in Transportation at Auburn once said everything you own was delivered at some point by TRUCK. It can be UPS, FedEx, the truck at the port that brings your new Nissan to you or the 18-wheeler hauling loads of tofu to Kroger. So basically, anytime any products or goods move ANYWHERE, oil is consumed.
And not just goods, but services. Shoot, my lawn guy is charging me an extra $5 these days for a yard trimming. He drives a giant F250 with a bunch of gas-hogging lawnmowers. As gas prices go up he has to pass that on. And that's gonna be the case for every sector of our economy.
I can't wait for hybrid prices to come down so I can jump in one. Even the higher prices that they demand today I think they're worth it. Yeah, you're not gonna make that money back anytime soon but you cut your dependence on foreign oil and anytime you can give the Middle East your Middle Finger, it's a good day.
Zack will contend that the world economy revolves around a bunch of dinosaurs that died millions of years ago and now end up in our gas tanks.
I can't say I disagree.
Think about this, a college friend of mine majoring in Transportation at Auburn once said everything you own was delivered at some point by TRUCK. It can be UPS, FedEx, the truck at the port that brings your new Nissan to you or the 18-wheeler hauling loads of tofu to Kroger. So basically, anytime any products or goods move ANYWHERE, oil is consumed.
And not just goods, but services. Shoot, my lawn guy is charging me an extra $5 these days for a yard trimming. He drives a giant F250 with a bunch of gas-hogging lawnmowers. As gas prices go up he has to pass that on. And that's gonna be the case for every sector of our economy.
I can't wait for hybrid prices to come down so I can jump in one. Even the higher prices that they demand today I think they're worth it. Yeah, you're not gonna make that money back anytime soon but you cut your dependence on foreign oil and anytime you can give the Middle East your Middle Finger, it's a good day.
posted by Gary Z at
8:03 PM
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So since oil is derived from dead dinosaurs, does that me that the local cemetary will one day be an oil field. Does my future kin get dibs on the oil produced by my dead and corroded body 10,000 years from now or does the government in the future get it?
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Tulio, At
12:21 PM
Um, if you're a dinosaur and we can put your remains in a mason jar to properly isolate them from other dinosaur remains then I think your family will have dibs on your remains in 3 millions years. But first we need to focus on getting you married so you can make some descendents. Oh yeah, and turning you into a dinosaur.
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Gary Z, At
7:40 PM
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