A buck thirty? Fuck me running.
Posted by Jeff on Sunday, 13 May, 2007
And here’s me thinking the price I saw when I posted this
was bad. Check this out:
Image blasted from The Province. Hey, I have a non-profit blog. Go ahead and sue me for a percentage of $0.00.
Absolutely fucking ridiculous. Even in the short span Dawn and I have been here in Vancouver (coming up on two years now), prices have gone from 90 cents per litre, now to $1.30 per litre. Two years and a 40 cent (or about 44%) increase in the rate. Funny how wages haven’t seen the same increase.
As much as it’s a crapshoot as to whether or not it works, I’m taking part in the “Don’t Buy Gas on May 15 protest.” Even if I was brimming rich, I would definitely take part. I have much better things to spend my money on than making oil companies richer. And yes Todd, I have read this post absolutely verifying every point you’ll robotically droll out claiming there’s nothing we can do. But really, how much effort would it take a person to have a gas-out? We’d just have to have the sense to fill up Monday at the latest, as so we don’t need to fill up Tuesday. Aside from that, it requires no effort on my part whatsoever. Nor to any other participant. If it fails, no skin off my back. At least we tried something instead of giving up entirely and subjugating ourselves to the ongoing greed of Bush’s oil buddies.
I still hold that we should maintain consistent pressure on the retailers by refusing to buy anything but the petrol we require for our vehicles. Maybe disturbing the side profits of cigarette/coffee/snack/lottery sales may upset the long term financial model. Maybe.
But, until Wednesday, it’s a simple thing to ask. Everybody fill up before Tuesday. I’m tired of seeing the above, especially when Vancouverites are paying as much as 27 cents more than can be justified (source: The Province).
That is all.
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