“Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it.”

Once’t upon a time.....When I was a boy during the second World War (The Big One according to Dobie Gillis’ father ‘n I’ve already been told that my reference points were ‘way out of date, thank you) gasoline was expensive ‘n in short supply because most of it went to the war effort ‘n turned automobiles into a really luxury item that was primarily available only to the very rich ‘n the p’litical connected (much as today)..

also, rubber which was pretty darned essential for tires considering that’s what cars ride on...

my first car had synthetic rubber tires that lasted almost four months of teenage driving...

Anyways, ‘way back then, while cars were no longer a novelty, still the majority of Americans didn’t own one but we were moving in that direction....well, until the war came along, anyway...A lot of working people who had managed to acquire an automobile suddenly found them unaffordable....’n pretty much unsellable also....A lot of cars ended up on blocks with the tires hanging from the walls of the garage.....t’was a fairly common sight during the war years....

‘Case you’re wondering, I’m just venting ‘cuz I paid over $4 a gallon for gasoline t’day ‘n the snooze nooze showed some places where it’s over $5 a gallon....’course, that really don’t have a lot of effect on our politicians who pretty much get all the gasoline they want on our dimes.....

y’know, it’s funny when Obama sez he wants to tax the rich, I’m beginning to wonder just what rich folk he’s talking about ‘cause from where I sit, seems like all the working class people are the ones paying all those taxes...oh, maybe not on their tax forms but certainly at the gas stations ‘n grocery stores....