Yesterday, I received an e-mail which urged me to boycott Exxon/Mobil when buying gas, with the idea that if we hit the largest oil companies where it hurts, they will have to lower prices and other oil companies will follow suit.

I was torn about this. I mean, yes, the high price of gas is really hurting me and means I can't take as many trips to see my family or my friends. But I also think it's not so bad to curtail American driving and mindless consumption a bit to help the environment. At the very least, I hope it will drive (no pun) those massive SUV's off the road.

But I just watched the CEO of Exxon/Mobil, who personally got a 168 MILLION dollar bonus this year and whose company earned around 250 million dollars more profit per DAY this year, on CNN, and I would love to see this jerk go down in flames. Quoth he regarding attempts to regulate windfall profits to oil companies by the government, "I have no interest in what they have to say. I had no interest at 10 dollars a barrel, and I have no interest at 40 or 50 dollars a barrel." (how about at $74 a barrel, the current price, you shmuck?) The fact that this guy who gets hundreds of millions of dollars as a bonus has the nerve to mock the people who drive to some shitty job and are literally pawning their stuff to pay for gas, just really gets under my skin. I bet he still had a frigging yacht, even when oil was $10 a gallon. You can bet he didn't take on a second job to pay for the gas to drive to his first job. So his smugness is unwelcome, and has prompted me to break my silence on this. No buying gas from Exxon or Mobil anymore, people. Oh, boy, you don't want to piss me off. I have the power to influence tens of people.

In other news, Satan is in the Bay Area today, clogging our freeways with his motorcade of evil. Like a Sheehan in Crawford, we don't like yer kind round these here parts. So move along.

 

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