Progressivly moving backwards
Today on average - I make in an hour what I used to make in a week when I first started working. Yes – I am considered “seasoned” by some, or “old” by many.
The point is – I am in business for myself and even though I know the numbers, when it comes to pricing my services, I sometimes find myself thinking in the 50’s & 60”s. Then of course, gas cost .25 cents a gallon or less. That causes me to think about how far we have regressed.
I remember when my dad brought home a $100.00 a week in the 50’s and we had a new car each year. We drove it right out of the factory in Detroit. We were never considered rich. We were typical Americans growing up after the war, learning how to live with increasing debt.
Are products so different today that a motor vehicle using .35 cents a gallon gas, (.10 cents in the 50’s) was any less efficient then the cars we drive today? My gas hog 57 Chevy got 12 to 14 miles to the gallon on a good day. Moreover, that was with me at the age of 17 with my foot through the floor. I would turn the engine over, the trunk would pop open and a squad car with an angry cop would jump out - ticket book in hand - every time.
Today, my neighbors SUV gets the same gas milage. My cost per gallon was .25 cents. Today it’s $3.45.
Some idiot in Washington is sitting before a congressional hearing telling us how oil companies are not profiting, why – in order to save money - we need to be more economical, effecient and why it’s all our fault. I guess it is - we allow it.
My solution? I wil show you economical. I’m am going back to the horse and buggy, raise a herd of cattle, and say the hell with any tree hugger who tells me that my cows are producing too much methane gas, which is contributing to global warming. I am going to tear up the land, grow my own food, cut down a wide section of virgin forest to build my own house, and provide logs for my efficient - but old - wood stove. I am going to butcher my hogs and my cows, eat meat because my body needs it to stay warm, and home school my kids because of the wasted intellectual system we have fostered in this country. I am going to dig a well, deplete your water table because all you’re doing is polluting it anyway, and reuse my waste water to water my land.
If you don’t like it – turn your back. You don’t need to worry about my little slice out of life.
I can assure you however, that the biggest cause of global warming, high fuel prices, and less efficient automobiles is not me, but it is the methane gas produced in the Congressional Halls of Washington this week.
The point is – I am in business for myself and even though I know the numbers, when it comes to pricing my services, I sometimes find myself thinking in the 50’s & 60”s. Then of course, gas cost .25 cents a gallon or less. That causes me to think about how far we have regressed.
I remember when my dad brought home a $100.00 a week in the 50’s and we had a new car each year. We drove it right out of the factory in Detroit. We were never considered rich. We were typical Americans growing up after the war, learning how to live with increasing debt.
Are products so different today that a motor vehicle using .35 cents a gallon gas, (.10 cents in the 50’s) was any less efficient then the cars we drive today? My gas hog 57 Chevy got 12 to 14 miles to the gallon on a good day. Moreover, that was with me at the age of 17 with my foot through the floor. I would turn the engine over, the trunk would pop open and a squad car with an angry cop would jump out - ticket book in hand - every time.
Today, my neighbors SUV gets the same gas milage. My cost per gallon was .25 cents. Today it’s $3.45.
Some idiot in Washington is sitting before a congressional hearing telling us how oil companies are not profiting, why – in order to save money - we need to be more economical, effecient and why it’s all our fault. I guess it is - we allow it.
My solution? I wil show you economical. I’m am going back to the horse and buggy, raise a herd of cattle, and say the hell with any tree hugger who tells me that my cows are producing too much methane gas, which is contributing to global warming. I am going to tear up the land, grow my own food, cut down a wide section of virgin forest to build my own house, and provide logs for my efficient - but old - wood stove. I am going to butcher my hogs and my cows, eat meat because my body needs it to stay warm, and home school my kids because of the wasted intellectual system we have fostered in this country. I am going to dig a well, deplete your water table because all you’re doing is polluting it anyway, and reuse my waste water to water my land.
If you don’t like it – turn your back. You don’t need to worry about my little slice out of life.
I can assure you however, that the biggest cause of global warming, high fuel prices, and less efficient automobiles is not me, but it is the methane gas produced in the Congressional Halls of Washington this week.
Labels: economy, fuel costs congressional hearings, green, oil, profits
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