Highly offensive rage against oil and bicycles follows. Not my !-ing day. Don’t click unless you’re ready for lots of superfluous capitals and exclamation points.
1) If the Congress voted TODAY to open up offshore drilling, we might see the first drop of oil in three or four years. If they voted TODAY to open up ANWR for drilling, the cost of gas might go down 2% by 2020. You know why oil shales and “tar sands” and stuff are our new source of oil? Because it’s ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. If gas was $2 a pop, nobody would make any money working over all these alternative oil sources. This is a market economy, people, and that means that a thing is worth WHAT PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR IT. Not a penny more or less. Low supply + high demand = higher prices. If you want the price of gas to plunge, STOP BUYING IT. Glut = lower prices.
Meanwhile, here’s a tip for bicyclists: if you have wheels, YOU ARE A VEHICLE. If you are a vehicle, YOU OBEY THE RULES OF THE ROAD. No blowing through RED LIGHTS at crowded intersections just because the traffic isn’t moving yet. No nearly running OTHER BIKES off the road because they’re not going fast enough for your liking. In short, it’s impossible for people like me to bike to work, because the douchebags in the Spandex and Camelbaks going one mile to the Bayshore light rail make the people in cars want to run EVERY FUCKING BIKE off the road, including the ones with people like ME on them!
I don’t care if gas goes to $10 a gallon, NOTHING is worth this kind of irritation before 8 AM! GET MY CAR!
And P.S. – unless your job is selling spliffs to the dirty teenage runaways on Telegraph Avenue, you should not be going to work ON A FUCKING SKATEBOARD!! *ESPECIALLY* not on the side of the road where the bike lane would be if there were one, where you’re between me and getting run down by a PANEL TRUCK!
ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!
Thank God someone else gets this stuff; otherwise, my head would simply explode. That, in a word, would be disgusting.
This oil thing isn’t that hard to figure out, people, and I hate to be the ones to inform everyone of this: it’s not because some oil company executives awoke one day and said “Let’s make $40B in profit this year.” When emerging markets like China and India start driving worldwide commodities demand (like they do now, instead of us), and they want lots of oil, then people will pay more for it. ANWR and offshore drilling would be like pissing in the wind, and most realistic oil and gas industry types will admit it.