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Saturday, February 09, 2008 @ 4:36 PM
My great-aunt Sherry sent me a really great e-mail forward about how Citgo has been taken over by Russians and Iranians and is changing its name to "Petrol Express" or something, and how if you're a good American, you should not buy gasoline there. Is it wrong that my reaction to this was, "Aw, how cute?" Is that an overly cynical reaction?
Pretty much irrelevant for me, since I do not buy gasoline, ever, from any gas station, whether it is owned by the British, the Iranians, or the Swedish. I am an avid pedestrian, even in an area that I think was designed to discourage all residents from walking even a single block. I've got ice on sidewalks, mountains of snow on the curbs, traffic circles, areas where there is no sidewalk, missing cross-walks, blind corners, and miles of woodland highway between parts of what is supposed to be ONE CITY. No public transportation, the private transportation (Short Line Coach bus system) has illogical and incredibly inconvenient schedules, and unreliable and sometimes very shady drivers. I'm convinced that the bus line owner is in cahoots with the taxi service, something like - Sureway Taxi pays half its profits to Short Line Bus in exchange for the bus company running itself out of business and forcing consumers to patronize the taxi service at ten times the cost.
"Who are we exploiting today?"
"Um... The workers, I think."
"Eeeexcellent."
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