I Hate Gas
From the title, you probably think I’m going to go on about my gastro-intestinal fortitude, but that’s not the case. I hate gasoline. The reason I hate gasoline? Nothing new I suppose. Just that the shit is getting more expensive than paparazzi photos of Britney Spears’ over-the-hill body.
I know all of the hubbub in the news is finally starting to make people wonder if the oil companies are pulling the wool over their eyes, but it’s not the media who have finally got me ticked off enough to write about it. The real reason I’ve gone and gotten pissed off enough to get a little constipated is that I can’t fill my whole tank up at one time.
How can that be, you ask? Well, for starters, I do have a relatively large gas tank on my truck. It’s 31 gallons. You see, when you use a credit or debit card out at the pump, apparently your card is only authorized for $75. That’s right. In the last month and a half I have gone over $75 to fill up my truck 3 freakin’ times!!! Do you know how frustrating it is to have to put up the nozzle on the pump, get out my credit card again, swipe it, select the gas I want, and put the nozzle back in my tank for a measily 1.2 gallons?
It makes me see red damn it. Not only have they already raped me for $75 worth of gas, they’re rubbing my nose in dog shit and making me get out my credit card AGAIN if I want to top off my tank.
Yes, I could just stop at $75 and count my losses, but I refuse to! From the picture at the top of the post, you can see the mileage for the tank written on the receipt, followed by the 1.347 gallons I had to buy right after that. I do this because I’ve been tracking my gas mileage since September 2005, and I have to have a full tank each time to track it. I’m trying to figure out if some additives I’m using make a difference in the long run. Hell I even buy the medium grade gas because it’s more cost effective in the long run, meaning the better mileage pays for itself.
I wanna kill the neo-cons who are lining their pockets at our expense!
Can you tell I’m a bitter, bitter man today?
What I wanna know is why your gas is so frickin’ CHEAP! I haven’t seen $2.78 a gallon gas in several years. My last tank went for $3.39 for the stuff with cigarette butts floating in it!
You could try what I have been doing. Fill up when you hit 1/2 a tank, instead of waiting. I started this method because it let me hunt for better prices. Hard to hunt for cheap gas when you’re driving on fumes. I keep waiting for alternative fuels, but so far the only ones that I have seen are barely alternative. (biodiesel sounded great til I realized that the stations around here only carry the ones that are 80% regular and 20%bio)
Damn, I was wondering the same thing Poobah was. And that’s for midgrade?? The cheapest here is right around 2.90 and 3.00 for the midgrade. I’m sorry this has your boxer briefs in a wad, I wish there were something I could do to help. ;)
Poobah: That receipt was from a few weeks ago. It’s closer to $3.00/gallon now. But I guess Kentucky is always a little cheaper than California and the coasts in general.
tubawench: You know, that’s actually a good idea. I usually fill up a full tank because I want to see what my mileage was for the entire tank, but really it would be more efficient to start gas shopping when I got around half a tank. I just might try that!
April: That’s actually about what it is here right now too. The $2.78 for mid-grade was a few weeks ago. And how did you know I wore boxer-briefs? That’s just eerie.
Holy cow. What do you drive that it has a 31 gallon gas tank? Mine is barely 10. Yes, gas it getting ridiculous. I heard that Australia is warning about prices as high as $2 a liter by next year. At some point I hope people will realize that the war was not about making sure we had cheap oil, but making sure we controlled the supply so the big oil companies could maximize profits.
Robguy: It’s a Chevy Avalanche… I knew I was getting myself in to trouble when I bought it, but it was just too good of a deal to pass up.
And if the public doesn’t wake up to that fact pretty soon, then I think we’re pretty much doomed as a country.
Bitter? Whose bitter?
Unrelated to the gas: forget about Britney’s old lady body…look at her caked-up FACE! Is that what pregnancy has done to her??
Jebus woman, put the penis DOWN!
nicole: Hahaha!
“Maam… please put the penis down and slowly back away! Maam, please! We need your cooperation on this… you do something for us and we’ll do something for you. So release the phallus, and let us see your hands!“
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