It really sucks to be ripped off. During this incident, while I was on my way to work, my horribly uncaffinated mind conjured up the image from a Boondocks comic strip I’d seen a few weeks before. In the strip, Grandpa was outraged about being “jacked”. I sympathized. I was robbed at the gas pump too.

Imagine having Howard Stern in your ears, sleep still stuck in your eyes & the lingering taste of tooth paste in your mouth when you find out gas is $2.25 a gallon... for fucking regular! Everything in my thought meats ground to a halt & a string of expletives flew from my still waking mouth. Fuck Bush! Fuck Cheney! Fuck Rumsfeld! Fuck the Saudis! Fuck Saddam Hussein! Fuck Bin Laden! Fuck OPEC! Fuck Shell Oil! Fuck every car company that hasn’t come up with an alternative fuel source! And fuck the guy with the vanity plate who’s parked at the pump next to me, just because.

Bad enough that the reason we were given about going to Iraq (weapons of mass destruction) were lies, but the real reason for the war (oil) has yet to benefit us. Who among you readers didn’t know this was a war for oil? Please raise your hand.

But you & I will not reap the benefits of cheap gas. Halliburton will, but not us. We’ll be charged an arm & a leg while we’re being told to buy Humvees & SUV’s; otherwise the terrorists have won.

Here’s hoping there’s a new president in November. 1 who is actually elected by the people & who can handle the Middle East problems so I don’t feel like I’m anally raped every time I gas up my car.

R

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