I was filling the tank today, and saw yet another sticker on the pump of President Biden pointing to the price and saying “I did that!” I see them frequently. You probably do as well. They are available on Amazon to wannabe vandals everywhere for just $3.99 per hundred. Ha ha ha! Funny.
Do these simpletons really think Joe Biden controls gas prices?
I scraped the sticker off the pump and flicked it in the trash – an act I’ve become accustomed to. I consider it a civic good deed.
This sticker phenomenon fills me with genuine existential dread. Has society sunk this low? Apparently so. Thousands of the willfully-ignorant are applying a stupid sticker to a gas pump as a delusional political statement. Do any of these knuckleheads stop to think how Biden is controlling gas prices? What about the fact that the price per barrel of crude oil has gone up all over the world? These are the same simpletons always blathering about “freedom.” Freedom includes the free market. But when it comes to gas prices, it’s somehow Biden’s fault.
They must think Old Joe has a big brushed-metal knob on the Resolute Desk, like something out of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, marked “Gas Prices.” He cranks it up, while gleefully cackling, “Those pickup truck driving rubes will never vote for me now! Bwa, ha, ha, ha!”
No single person can be blamed for rising gas prices, but if it’s anyone, think Valdimir Putin.
Meanwhile, oil company executives are laughing so hard they need a new supply of gold-plated Depends. They retire as billionaires – so rich their grandchildren will never have to work – and their most dependent customers, the drivers of gas-guzzling pick-ups, blame the price on poor old Joe. It’s history’s greatest scam.
I’ll digress a bit here, but THIS IS IMPORTANT, DAMMIT: The scientific community has demonstrated that one percent of the potential renewable energy available to us is enough to power the entire planet. (Don’t believe me? Look it up!) Furthermore, we have the technology to do it, we just lack the political will. One big reason for this is that the oil companies have a stranglehold on the US government. For decades, they have been consciously distracting us from the perils of climate change for the benefit of short-term profit. They are killing us all, and being rewarded with obscene wealth. This will sound extreme, but I really mean it: All oil companies should be taxed, and/or fined out of existence. Their executives should all be jailed.
For the record, Presidents can’t raise or lower the price of anything, including gas. The best (or worst) they can do is suggest a tax to congress. And that hasn’t happened. Joe Biden didn’t do this!
Can a society endure when it contains so many proudly ignorant members?
With the Flying Spaghetti Monster as my witness, I swear my next car will be electric.
