tony bennett's Journal

drilling for morons
i mentioned to my brother yesterday that i had a sneaking suspicion that gas prices have dropped so dramatically in the last few weeks because of a conspiracy among the fat cats to soothe the aching populus' pocketbooks and make them more apt to vote republican.

today, i'm reading some comments on an article (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/20/expertinent-why-obama-needs-a-big-convention-bump.aspx), and i come across this hunk of gold:

"If you don't think oil drilling helps with oil prices then you are an Obama sheep. Since Bush lifted the oil drilling ban, gas prices have plummeted by 60 cents. It didn't take 10 years as you said to move a nickel. It only took 1 month to lower it by 60 cents."

okay. three things. first: this person is smart enough to have access to and use a computer. think of how many millions of backwoods idiot hicks have never been on the internet before. so there are STUPIDER people in existence than this person.

second: BUSH HAS LIFTED NO OIL DRILLING BANS. none. mccain is trying to trick people into thinking that drilling for more oil will help us. yes, it will. years down the road, after all that exploration and construction, it will ease gas prices. by a few cents. and by that time, we'll be even FURTHER behind on breaking out of the iron grip of fossil fuels. another step taken towards extinguishing ourselves through sheer stupidity. history repeats itself again and again. we are the romans, as the band botch once put it.

third: gas hasn't dropped 60 cents. it's dropped 30 or 40. this is partly due to the fact that supply and demand has changed. i know that i haven't filled my car all the way up in months, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. and then there's that whole conspiracy idea, which is hardly far-fetched, but is just a hunch of mine.

*sigh*

your voice, your vote? it counts EXACTLY the same as this person's. this total moron, he matters just as much as you.

i doubt the founding fathers ever thought people would be THIS STUPID.

Advertisement