Support Local Business (if you have the means)
I was going to rave and jabber about this stupid gas tax holiday, but my points have already been exhausted, and I've been in the middle of writing a fucking treatise on the Ford Taurus for my marketing class.
But anyways, want to simulate the gas tax holiday? Don't drive some where you usually drive for one day, then the next day, drive your car as fast as you can down a dirt road.
Now here's a chunk of marketing brilliance! Chrysler has offered to cap gas at $2.99 a gallon for three years for all new car buyers. You fill up, then send Chrysler your receipt, and they'll reimburse you for the rest.
So let's say you have a 20 gallon tank on your brand new Chrysler, so you fill up at $3.75 a gallon. $75! So now you mail Chrysler the receipt. Hooray! $15 back, minus the cost of a stamp (41 cents)
So let's say you fill up once a week, so you get $60 back per month X 36 months = $2160, that's a decent supplement to the $8640 you've spent in gas in those three years.
But then calculate the wear and tear on the car, and Chrysler corp's ridiculously low resale value...now your deal is not looking so hot, yet I bet chrysler will attract AT LEAST 25000 new buyers. That's the same type of logic that got my co-worker to drop $14000 dollars on a smart car to save gas money. That'll be a good 10 years before you see any return on investment (unless gas goes up to $100 a gallon) and you look like a clown the entire fucking time you drive it.
So, my point is, gas tax holidays don't do anything, and the stimulus package isn't really doing shit either.
On the radio this morning, someone mentioned that the best thing to do would be to spend your tax refund locally at a small privately owned business. I've already blown $275 paying off one of my credit cards, but I believe I'll put at least some of the remainder towards something agricultural in nature. I hope you all consider doing the same. Local farms need help.
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Cavutto on
Taking the bus to work kicks ass, dude. If I don't go anywhere on the weekends, I can get by filling up once a month (or less).
It's great for the environment too! Totally unburdens my conscience. It's like Jesus is my bus driver and he's driving me along a beach made of carbon and I'm not leaving any footprints. There are angels too and they're all singing and doing slutty things to each other way in the back.
TheJoeD on
That's great. I'm driving 25 miles one way to work, so I'm pretty much running past your bus leaving snow shoe prints in the carbon beach.
Plus...I don't recycle :-(
Plus...I don't recycle :-(
Cavutto on
I can't stop laughing at the mental picture of you running down a carbon beach in snowshoes. Especially funny is the look on Jesus's face when you sprint by us.
tortfeasor on
I'm a local business. Send me the money! I'll write your will, and we can leave everything to Chrysler.
BLSalerno711 on
Yeah...I commute 80 total miles a day in Jeep...so I'm pretty much digging a massive crater in that carbon beach...dropping my drawers and taking a massive shit...
Which is really not cool because I totally fancy myself an environmentalist...guess I gotta get a hybrid!?
Which is really not cool because I totally fancy myself an environmentalist...guess I gotta get a hybrid!?
johnlanguage on
here's a good one on the topic of local farmers....
i heard the other day, and realized for the first time that corporate giants control the agricultural seed industry - aka, these guys are the seedbanks that supply most of the seeds that become the foods we eat. but they've cut biodiversity down to like 5 strains of a certain fruit or vegetable when there used to be 100s or 1000s. theyre trying to monopolize the market by lobbying for unrecognized seeds (seeds they dont supply) to be branded as "outlaw" seeds......... read this little snippet of an article. its crazy.
"While mass extinctions are taking place in natural ecosystems, the same has taken place in domesticated seeds. Today there are only half a dozen apple types grown in the UK, down from 2,000 a century ago. Over 90% of crop types listed in the US have been lost in 80 years, and China now grows fifty types of rice, down from 8,000 just twenty years ago. The whole human population is supported by just 30 main crop varieties – a recipe for disaster.
LIFE INC.
Originally laws regarding seeds were brought in during the 1920s – mostly to regulate quality and make sure they did what they said on the tin, and not disease ridden, full of stray weed seed or stones. At the time these laws were a good thing but guess what! It’s all been twisted around and now companies use these and subsequent laws to get control of the market. By cutting out the independent networks of farmers, gardeners, and independent seed-sellers - on a worldwide scale - ten companies now control two-thirds of seed distribution. And which companies are we talking about? It’s yer bio-tech giants like Monsanto and Syngenta. Unsurprisingly governments around the world are building up the legal framework to support these firms."
sweet. and I pretty much GUARANTEE you that some assholes are doing it on purpose because - in the corporate long term - if you can extinguish crops people will eventually be forced to buy your biochemically engineered versions of the same foods with NO alternative... paying for the things you used to get for free.
i heard the other day, and realized for the first time that corporate giants control the agricultural seed industry - aka, these guys are the seedbanks that supply most of the seeds that become the foods we eat. but they've cut biodiversity down to like 5 strains of a certain fruit or vegetable when there used to be 100s or 1000s. theyre trying to monopolize the market by lobbying for unrecognized seeds (seeds they dont supply) to be branded as "outlaw" seeds......... read this little snippet of an article. its crazy.
"While mass extinctions are taking place in natural ecosystems, the same has taken place in domesticated seeds. Today there are only half a dozen apple types grown in the UK, down from 2,000 a century ago. Over 90% of crop types listed in the US have been lost in 80 years, and China now grows fifty types of rice, down from 8,000 just twenty years ago. The whole human population is supported by just 30 main crop varieties – a recipe for disaster.
LIFE INC.
Originally laws regarding seeds were brought in during the 1920s – mostly to regulate quality and make sure they did what they said on the tin, and not disease ridden, full of stray weed seed or stones. At the time these laws were a good thing but guess what! It’s all been twisted around and now companies use these and subsequent laws to get control of the market. By cutting out the independent networks of farmers, gardeners, and independent seed-sellers - on a worldwide scale - ten companies now control two-thirds of seed distribution. And which companies are we talking about? It’s yer bio-tech giants like Monsanto and Syngenta. Unsurprisingly governments around the world are building up the legal framework to support these firms."
sweet. and I pretty much GUARANTEE you that some assholes are doing it on purpose because - in the corporate long term - if you can extinguish crops people will eventually be forced to buy your biochemically engineered versions of the same foods with NO alternative... paying for the things you used to get for free.
