People bitching about gas prices

People who bitch about gas prices grip my shit.

It might just be my imagination, but it seems like the people who moan the most are the same people who like to waste gas the most. The ones who leave their vehicles idling all the time they are in a store, drive around with a weighty trunk full of unnecessary junk or gun their engines when the lights turn green.

Maybe they're also the ones who make all those stupid little 500-yard trips to the local convenience store or drive-thru restaurant every lunchtime?

You hear them complaining about how gas costs $4 a gallon whilst in the same breath boast of some "made in japan' trinket they found whilst shopping at Kmart or Walgreens.

Or they drive a huge SUV and just "don't get it", as if gas is some kind of unquestionable right.

I feel genuinely sorry for the people who have to drive miles to and from their place of employment, but in many cases those people consciously chose the 'dream' of living out in America's vast suburban landscape and are simply now having to properly pay the price of being so very far from everything.

America's PAST is based on cheap transportation. America's FUTURE has to be based on something entirely different and far more sustainable.

(A glass of beer at the Great American Ball Park costs the equivalent of $62 a gallon. I don't hear as many people bitching about that!)