A Sunday thing or two or three
One more round, Paula. The headlines say that Paula Creamer is tied for the lead with two other golfers up there in Corning, NY - which may as well be in Canada, for Chrissakes - but we know better. She isn't tied for anything. Don't burn yourself out, kid. I want you to be in top form in 2 weeks when I go to Maryland.It says she is tied with Beth Bader and Young Kim. Feh. Step aside, losers. Final round coverage is on the Golf Channel at 6:30 Sunday. I know - The Golf Channel - Quick ... tell me which number it is on your cable. It's probably between Versus and a shopping channel in a place your TV only goes when your finger slips on the remote. Nine [click] seven ... crap! "What's this? Grass?"
Meanwhile, The Pope is considering a return to a latin mass. Smooth move, Benny. Why not alienate the fifteen people who haven't already been turned off by the irrelevance of religion. Apparently, he isn't the least bit concerned about job security. Oh wait ... he still rides around in that Popemobile, right?
HOUSTON - If you think gasoline prices are high now, consider the eye-popping possibilities if another monster storm pummels the Gulf of Mexico this hurricane season, the way Katrina and Rita battered the petroleum-rich waters in 2005.
Oh -- I'm scared. If it isn't a storm, it's a perceived shortage or trouble in the Middle East or some short-term price issue ... whatever. We're screwed, gang. I saw a story on ABC News on Saturday night that said a poll told them that people would not alter their driving habits until gas prices reached $5 a gallon. What that tells me is that the oil companies have the ability to raise prices to $5. They know that too, but they cannot raise prices so dramatically, so they do it in penny (or the ridiculous nine-tenths of a penny) increments. They wratchet it up a little at a time while we make subtle adjustments to our lives in response - until - we finally stop doing something that uses gasoline, at which point they will stop. It's $5 now, $6 next year ...
HOUSTON - If you think gasoline prices are high now, consider the eye-popping possibilities if another monster storm pummels the Gulf of Mexico this hurricane season, the way Katrina and Rita battered the petroleum-rich waters in 2005.
Oh -- I'm scared. If it isn't a storm, it's a perceived shortage or trouble in the Middle East or some short-term price issue ... whatever. We're screwed, gang. I saw a story on ABC News on Saturday night that said a poll told them that people would not alter their driving habits until gas prices reached $5 a gallon. What that tells me is that the oil companies have the ability to raise prices to $5. They know that too, but they cannot raise prices so dramatically, so they do it in penny (or the ridiculous nine-tenths of a penny) increments. They wratchet it up a little at a time while we make subtle adjustments to our lives in response - until - we finally stop doing something that uses gasoline, at which point they will stop. It's $5 now, $6 next year ...
Meanwhile, they scare us with this storm nonsense. Did we have any storms last year? No. How are gas prices going?
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Fear is such a horrible marketing tactic but it works. Mention hurricane's and people think of Texas then they think of Oil and it's all downhill from there.
So sad. $5 BUCKS a gallon and they'll start worrying? Christ I want their job if they don't worry about anything til then. Guess the cost of gasoline is a middle class worry.
Kimmyk: People are so stuck in their routines, that the price of gasoline is what they feel is a necessary evil. We have tried to start car pools at work, but people think they need their car sitting in the parking lot all day to feel secure.
Oil companies know that and use it.
I couldn't resist going on the LPGA site to see who won.
I watched it anyway, just to see how it happened.