Happy Mother's Day and....A Blow Pop... Is An All Day Sucker
Happy Mother's Day! And $2.29, is what I was greeted with on my way to see 'Star Trek, the Prequel',( by the way, the movie was G-r-r-r-reat!) Anywho, the gas price on the 8th was $2.25, before that it had been moving up and down between $2.09 and $2.11, then $2.19 and up-up and away-hey...They're at it again. Greed the reality show. Speculators driving up gas prices again...a plot and a plan with a purpose! It's my understanding that it's $2.75 by this summer, in time to ruin summer vacation again for folks. This doesn't just affect summer vacationers; it's more far reaching than that. How about, it affects the prices that you will pay for heat this winter, if you still use gas and oil. The utility companies purchase gas and oil at certain times of the year for the coming year. Do you think the speculators don't know this? Yeah they know, a plot and a plan with a purpose. So it's not only going to affect the summer vacationers, but the folks who depend on gas and oil this winter for heating and cooking purposes even if the prices go back down.
As the poet e.e. cummings put it, 'the greedy the people if needs must be... I laugh in retrospect when I recall that the financial analysts earlier last year were referring to their supply and demand models, looking for answers to the gas crisis...They were WRONG! Some were even blaming the Chinese because of their so called 'veracious appetite' for cars and that demand was driving up gas prices...WRONG, AGAIN!...It t'weren't the Chinese...The word for today is Blow Pop! The word on the street is that a blow pop is an all day sucker. So, SUCKER-R-R-R-R-R!
MSNBC busted them, cracked the code that eluded the analysts tenaciously clinging to their crusty models and so did Sixty Minutes. It was speculators moving the gas market, NOT supply and demand.
As the President said before taking office, that just because the gas prices had gone down, that we as consumers, after breathing a sigh of relief couldn't go back to our old habits and allow ourselves to get suckered back in to buying gas guzzling cars and not demanding and supporting new 'green' technology. So on the following Monday I noticed the bikes are starting to pile up again in the alley behind the bank. I showed you from a previous article there were as many as eight bikes then.
The economy has always been part of homeland security, every country's security. Speculators could care less. Neither do the car companies, they keep pushing the same cars and technology on ya with a few new bells and whistles added. They tease you with new technology but the price is so high that the savings and return on investment is laughable. If you fall for the marketing, instead of putting your mortgage payment in your gas tank, your monthly car payment and car insurance payment become the new mortgage payment.
And...How about those realestate taxes, in the amounts of another mortgage payment (another story, not only that after paying your home off, that you can be taxed out of it...as well as causing the housing market to recover wa-a-a-y slower. For instance, there have been plenty of houses in my neighborhood in the Da 'Burgh that potential buyers have looked at and the price was right until they fielded down to the tax part and discovered a second mortgage payment that doesn't go away but usually grows with each new assessment. Meanwhile, back at the homestead in West Virginia, land developers and realestate developers serving on the assessment boards and committees (a conflict of interest) want that land that grandma has been sitting on that has been in the family for umpty-nine years, have driven up the land prices and taxes).
So...it's back to the garden, my food fight, my Victory Garden. I've also increased my indoor sprout production. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice shame on me. Next, paying off existing debt, building an emergency fund and living debt free.
Collards, Cabbage, Brussel sprouts and Marigolds
Posted by stephscip at 5/13/2009 7:51 AM 
Categories: gas crisis, economy, homeland security, speculators, realestate taxes
Tags: gas crisis economic crisis
Categories: gas crisis, economy, homeland security, speculators, realestate taxes
Tags: gas crisis economic crisis
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