win win for the Greedy Old Party

Virginia is about to (or maybe did yesterday?) impose a new tax.  Yes, from the GOP, hater of taxes under any name, a tax on hybrid cars.  $100 a year.  Why?  They really don't say.  For sure it's Koch brothers and their ilk behind it.
Hybrid cars help us all.  When you see the hybrid sticker next to you at the light, know that he's using less gas, competing less for the gallons you need.  Hybrids, even if you don't have one, helps lower gas prices.  It may not seem that way lately but it does.  So........why punish the hybrid driver?  For big oil it's simple, cause they hurt profits and they are the future trend!

Pope Brownback of Kansas is caught by the Wichita Eagle "investigative reporters" (an almost extinct species) in a 2 billion dollar lie.  For months he has pranced about claiming spending has been cut $2 billion from the bad old days of Democrat governors.  Pants on fire, spending is up, it's higher than when he took over.  He also claims a whole wraft of shit about school funding and kids performances, Pants on fire, all false.  But since the story came out Monday, nothing much said, life goes on, no other press picked it up, and the state house is busy busy busy today writing 4 very important bills; make it harder to permit wind farms, more restrictions aginst abortion, make it more difficult for union (not only public employee unions but all) dues to be paid/handled/forwarded in the state, a law forcing police in Kansas to arrest any Federal employee/law enforcement type taking a gun or enforcing any gun law....... this one even the red neck state attorney general said is poison as the FBI or ATF would have to turn around and arrest the local cops for obstruction of justice or at a bank robbery local cops would arrest FBI for taking the gun from the suspect or drug dealer....... oh this state is so fucked.

Back to oil.  Gas is up 40 cents in 2 weeks, in a few cities prices are over $4 already.  Why?  The national fleet is being driven less, partly due to the recession, and new cars get better mileage than old ones headed to salvage, every day we are using a little less to go the same distance.  Drill baby drill is paying off to.  More drilling rigs have been at work the last 4 years than anytime, ever.  Oil prices are set on world markets, the fact we have more oil than ever doesn't mean shit, it's world demand, combined with speculators and big oil holding finished product off the market.  So why the price jump?    Like Enron traders said about jacking up utility rates for no good reason, leaving the elderly in the cold, fuck these old ladies.  And there it is, it's just greed and evil.  Plus, they don't mind slowing the economy while they profit, win win for them, make Obama look bad and stuff your pockets.