The Price Of Gas
Most talk around the water coolers these days is the endless bitching about the gas prices. Everybody on the planet is talking about it. You would think if you were the CEO of a gas company, you would be nervous to get out and walk the street. But as much as the average person complains about it, he feels there is nothing he can do about it. Part of the problem here is no one has any idea where to go to protest the gas hikes. You can't go to your local gas station to protest because no one of any importance is there. "I am just a cog in the wheel." says the owner. "I just pump the gas." says the attendant. It's true, the local people cannot really do much to change the overall picture.
So, what do we do as people? We curse to ourselves and to others about how unfair it is and then we go to the pumps and ACCEPT it. Walt Disney must have got the idea for Goofy from dopes like us..."Ahew Ahew...gas prices gone up again....guess I will have to pay more...Ahew ahew." The oil companies see this and they say "..HEY... we can raise the price to $1.00/litre and they will not revolt. Let's try for $1.20..oh wait a minute ..there is a bit of an uproar...bring it down to $1.05 and then after a week...back to $1.20. Let's start a rumour....up to $2.00...oh boy everyone is panicking....bring it down to 1.35 and....hey no one is complaining...next week let's see if we can get away with $1.50." And so, on and on that cat and mouse game goes. It becomes quite evident that Mr. Consumer is in fact Mr. Hostage.
There is a way for the consumer to get back but it would take some help from the media. The problem with the oil companies, is that there is no figure head or anyone in particular to protest against. If you are unhappy with the government and you know who heads it, you usually round up a possee and head to wherever his office is. This should be the same for the oil companies. We need to find the son of a bitch who is the CEO for let's say Shell Canada. We plaster his name and photo in the newspapers and television. We find out where he lives and after two weeks of protesting his house, office, barber and mistress' place, guess what ....the oil prices are coming down.....75cents/litre. We don't need to protest with all of the CEO's at the same time but we can pick one at random to keep the other ones on their toes. "Oh shoot, they're coming to my offices....drop the f****** prices!!! Drop the f****** prices!
The real solution is to bring these people who are gouging the working Joe out in the public eye so everybody can see who exactly is gouging them. Yeah, I know about foreign ownership and all that crap but it works so well when we burn the local boy in effigee because it brings out the Canadian nationalism in all of us.
So now that my proposal is all set up, all we have to do now is set up a little research to find those that are wanted and then set up the possee and have ourselves a grand old witching party. Gas hikes will then be a thing of the past. It's a whole lot better than being Goofy which the public now is.
So, what do we do as people? We curse to ourselves and to others about how unfair it is and then we go to the pumps and ACCEPT it. Walt Disney must have got the idea for Goofy from dopes like us..."Ahew Ahew...gas prices gone up again....guess I will have to pay more...Ahew ahew." The oil companies see this and they say "..HEY... we can raise the price to $1.00/litre and they will not revolt. Let's try for $1.20..oh wait a minute ..there is a bit of an uproar...bring it down to $1.05 and then after a week...back to $1.20. Let's start a rumour....up to $2.00...oh boy everyone is panicking....bring it down to 1.35 and....hey no one is complaining...next week let's see if we can get away with $1.50." And so, on and on that cat and mouse game goes. It becomes quite evident that Mr. Consumer is in fact Mr. Hostage.
There is a way for the consumer to get back but it would take some help from the media. The problem with the oil companies, is that there is no figure head or anyone in particular to protest against. If you are unhappy with the government and you know who heads it, you usually round up a possee and head to wherever his office is. This should be the same for the oil companies. We need to find the son of a bitch who is the CEO for let's say Shell Canada. We plaster his name and photo in the newspapers and television. We find out where he lives and after two weeks of protesting his house, office, barber and mistress' place, guess what ....the oil prices are coming down.....75cents/litre. We don't need to protest with all of the CEO's at the same time but we can pick one at random to keep the other ones on their toes. "Oh shoot, they're coming to my offices....drop the f****** prices!!! Drop the f****** prices!
The real solution is to bring these people who are gouging the working Joe out in the public eye so everybody can see who exactly is gouging them. Yeah, I know about foreign ownership and all that crap but it works so well when we burn the local boy in effigee because it brings out the Canadian nationalism in all of us.
So now that my proposal is all set up, all we have to do now is set up a little research to find those that are wanted and then set up the possee and have ourselves a grand old witching party. Gas hikes will then be a thing of the past. It's a whole lot better than being Goofy which the public now is.
posted by Robert @ 8:12 p.m.
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