We got Gas...

So I'm heading out the door and realize that I don't have any gas in the car, (about a gallon if I'm lucky) and I get twenty bucks to put in...figured I'll get enough to last the rest of the week right? Well I fill up and basicly get a full tank with twenty bucks...$20! thats about twenty bucks less than it cost to fill up about a month ago. Needless to say I am very happy about this downward spike in gas prices. It came to late to actually help anybody of course, but I think if it stays down...or gets lower, (gasp!) then we might actually see a turn around!

Lets do the time line shall we?

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-Gas went up...Sky high would be an understatement.

-People still had to go to work, so they had to buy gas. (or take the bus...which had to buy gas)

-People had less money to buy STUFF with.

-The companies that make the STUFF made less money...and had to start laying people off.

-People got layed off...which means they are making even less money...and buying even less STUFF.

-The companies that make the STUFF are forced to cry to the government because nobody can afford to buy their STUFF and they are not making any money and they don't want to fire any more people and they need a bail out.

-Congress does what it does best...absolutly nothing usefull at all. (Any one hear how much of that 700 BILLION dollars actually went to bail out the economy? and how much are they trying to "Save just in case"?)

-Now all the sudden some guys up top of the real world powers (the oil industry) get something done and the oil prices start to drop... (either that or we took over all the oil fields in the middle east by force, either way is fine by me)

-I can drive my car again!

-Gas drops so low that I can drive my car AND buy STUFF when I get there!

-the companies start making money again!

-the companies can afford to HIRE people again!

-about this time the world ends.

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See? when you let a simple person like me figure it out...it becomes simple...don't you think that timeline is simple? I know you do.

Of course this just means that the greed that has implanted itself at the top of economic development and big business will have to stay in the closet for a few months...ok, so alot of few months, like a couple of years, what ever. Sadly, I doubt this will happen because greed has a hard enough time not showing up for thrity seconds in big business, much less a few years...

I'm sure the president of Sunoco is like "I'm Lossing so much money! Look, I'm making what we made five years ago when people could have their cars and drive them too!"

God forbid any one look back to when gas was a dollar a gallon and realize the people who owned the oil were still WAAAY richer than the people who bought the oil.

God forbid any of the WAAAY richer people say "Wow...I can live off 100,000 dollars a year instead of like 1.6 million (which I'm sure is an understatement)

Its funny, because when people have so much money they become so scared to live off of less...but they don't even know what to do with all the money they have in the first place!!