The Similkameen News Leader
Editorial
February 26, 2008
NO USE FIGHTING THE GAS WAR
So the price of gas has gone up again.
Just when I was finally getting used to what little gas I could buy at $1.06.9 I now have a new price to warm up to. How I miss the old days, about a year ago, when I paid 98.9 and whined about that.
How I miss the older days, about two years ago, when I paid 88.9 and whined about that.
Come to think of it, it must have been the real old days, about three years ago, when I paid 78.9 and whined about that.
I keep hearing about a battery-operated car and the hydrogen-powered car and the one that runs on bear grease and the one that runs on water and the one that runs on air and the one that runs on kitchen scraps and the one that runs on Smarties and the one that runs on whatever else hasn't been exploited already.
I keep hearing about them, but I still haven't seen George Jetson zip by me on Highway 3 and thumbing his nose at me because his vehicle is more efficient than mine.
Still, I contribute to my carbon footprint buy driving that gas-guzzling Aveo, which, by the way, gets no less than 600-kilometres to a full tank of gas, which up until last week cost in the neighbourhood of $30.00.
I fill the tank once a week.
Or I used to.
Now I just top it up, put about twenty bucks in at a time. I get enough mileage out of it I don't worry about keeping the tank full anymore.
But I do think the Summer of '08 will be remembered as the summer we all paid $1.45.9 at the pump and longed for the good old days of early 2008 when the price was only $1.06.9 and we all whined about it.
And why is it we don't see those alternative fuel vehicles filling up the showrooms in Penticton and Merritt?
Simple. The big oil companies aren't ready to loosen their grip on our wallets.
I'm thinking it's time to reexamine the plan of creating a vehicle that ran on cow manure. Area H would be a great place to test market the product, as there would be a variety of fuel grades to choose from.
The grain-fed cows would be producing the high-grade fuel with alfalfa-fed cattle responsible for mid-grade quality and the lower end fuel would be from grass-fed stock.
I've already got the slogan: Stop buying crappy fuel when you can get the real deal!
So maybe the cow manure car is a bit ahead of it's time, but don't tell me you won't be thinking about it the next time you fuel up!
