I can't help but comment on emails like these that claim to help out in tough times, and they are usually written by somebody who thinks they know everything... But in all likelyhood, they're full of crap!
Please review the email here, then return for my comments You will appreciate them. Trust me!
If you can squeeze an extra mile out of your full tank with some of the suggestions listed here, great. If you want to wait twice as long filling your tank on the low level of nozzle flow, while paying $3.50 a gallon, you're torturing yourself. Me personally? Filling my tank is depressing enough for me to willfully watch the numbers on the pump reach $60.00 slower than had I just locked the nozzle on high!
If we lived in the world Mad Max lives in, maybe I would give this public service announcement a little more credit. The fact is... Everyone fills there tank too soon to take advantage of a measly extra ONE mile! Because their time is worth money too. Gimme a break!
WHERE TO BUY USA GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON
This is the most amusing part of the message... Quit sending your money overseas to the Saudi's, when there is American gas readily available (insert visual of a gun-toting redneck being slapped across the face here)!
And my favorite quote of the message...
"Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends."
Yeah... Because everyone in the middle east feels this way about the USA (insert visual of an ordinary bigot being kicked in the crotch here). Absurd!
If we're all dead, who's going to buy their oil.
The message goes on to inform you of where to buy American oil instead of Middle Eastern oil. That's very convenient. I already do buy American oil. But let's just say that this message has a profound effect on all Americans who read this and start to heed it's message...
The Alaska Pipeline provides a mere 20% of our nation's oil consumption. Give or take a percentage here and there (insert visual of a light bulb turning on over a Texas oil tycoon's head here)...* We also depend on a few other nations for oil outside of the Middle East... But the fact of the matter is, The Middle East rules the playground in this little volley of oil trade.
SO...
If we, as a united nation, decide to become totally self-sufficient on our own natural resources, the message is to force the Middle East to drive down prices (insert visual of Middle Eastern Oil Company's board room executives applauding here)... NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, PEOPLE!!!
As good as it sounds, what will ultimately happen is that we deplete all our natural resources completely, and quickly, and become 100% reliable on the Middle East" (insert visual of Middle Eastern Oil Company's board room executives applauding - and sarcasm here) where everyone wants to kill us," and watch them raise the prices at their leisure (insert visual of a board meeting filled with powerful men, wearing "rags" on there head here). And they would because we are a rich nation, and of course they want to (insert sarcasm here) kill us because they all share the same notion that the only good American is a dead American... So yeah... Take a stand! Boycott the holders of the largest keepers of natural resources to show our pride! That will show them!
I am by no means a Bush supporter (insert visual of President George W. Bush's photo with the word FAIL stamped over it here) or condone our presence in the Middle East, but I am a strong supporter of NOT letting stupid people rally more stupid people into believing that our nation is so strong that we don't need anybody else to help us live convenient lives! Check yourselves!
As much as it pains me to say this (because I drive an eight cylinder American pickup truck), perhaps the real message behind this little rally is to start thinking green.
Instead of buying a Hummer tomorrow, maybe you should consider buying something a little more fuel conservative. Perhaps a vehicle besides a Hemi or something that is going to cost you $100 a tank by the end of the year... Just a thought, and a better alternative to being a proud patriot.
That is my view. Take it however you want to.
* The Alaska Pipeline is currently flowing half-full at best right now. There is a reason why Congress is fighting to open up ANWR for drilling. We're running out of natural resources people!!!
I live in Alaska; I know this first hand! Observe this! Know this! Act Accordingly! But don't, by any means, be drawn into stupid rallying viral emails from people who are full of bologna!
