So many random thoughts, so little time. Her uterus fell out? The lady on tv says it’s true. Twitter? What the hell is that? I just got the hang of blogging. Damn gas prices. Remember when the government decided to do something about Americans killing themselves with cigarettes? They hiked up the taxes and prices so much that smokers felt “squeezed” into curbing their habits or even quitting altogether. I have a sneaking suspicion that the same thing is happening with our gas prices. Yes, it’s much more complicated than that, but nothing else has curbed American’s gasoline consumption the way outrageous prices have. That’s my little theory. Ass implants? Who in their right mind would get fat put INto their butt? Jesse Jackson is gonna cut Barack Obama’s n**s off? What, he didn’t know there was a huge microphone under his nose and cameras in front of his face?
Ok, now maybe I can concentrate on something that makes sense, a little knitting. Latest project, socks in Regina Silk:
I like the yarn alright but the newness has worn off and am now anxious to get to some other yarn I haven’t played with yet. Knitter’s ADD

July 16, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Funny thing – in Europe, gas prices are so high (around $11/gal) because 60% of the gas price is taxes. But gas prices haven’t gone up that much in Europe, because 60% of the prices is in taxes. It seems counter intuitive, but it works. High taxes buffer high price increases, but they also don’t allow for the deep lows of prices (like we used to have with gasoline). The only reason that ciggies and alcohol taxes worked is because they actually increased the taxes themselves, not the price of the ciggies.
Gas prices are going up because the amount of gas being produced is not increasing (remember how Bush said going to war with Iraq would be good for oil prices???) but the demand in china and India is increasing exponentially (or so it would seem). The sad reality is that no matter how much we conserve, we will not see the benefit of that conservation, and our only real option is to move away from a fossil fuel economy.
And the economist gets off her soapbox and gets some real work done…
July 23, 2008 at 8:50 am
I have that same knitters’ ADD. Just added another project. Still haven’t sewn up Josephine.
Twitter? Now it’s Plurk! I’m just trying to keep up…
July 23, 2008 at 10:26 pm
LOVE this!! Thanks for making me laugh….
September 11, 2008 at 4:46 am
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