Warning, Rough road ahead
Has this country gone completely daft? While riding the B-Line this morning, I caught this price on the corner of Skyway and Wagstaff, a sure indication that the $5 end of summer price prediction is likely to be reality.
photo by Gary D. Brune copyright (c) 2008
As a starving student at Chico State, I haven't had the money to run a car for quite some time. Still, I held onto the hope that such a convenience would come my way. Prices like this completely dash the dream and confine me to a bus driver as chauffeur for the foreseeable future.
While walking slowly on the streets of the Ridge, I see all these bricks with wheels speeding past and muse on how they can afford to keep their piece of the road running. The traffic hasn't seemed to have diminished over the last couple of months so there must be an out somewhere.
Another writer I read this morning ranted about the increased cost of corn flakes. With me it's wheat bread and meat, but everything else I can eat increases its presence in my budget as well. And yet there is no movement yet to do anything about this.
The sign I pictured here is from Conoco/Phillips Union 76, all of which used to be separate service stations. Isn't this the way things got out of control a hundred years ago when the reformist movement broke up Big Oil? I fear what will happen when the American people reach their breaking point this time.