Several years ago this state spent millions of dollars running television and radio ads encouraging drivers to slow down and save fuel, ride a bicycle or walk when you could, do everything you could to conserve gasoline.
Well...after a couple of years of that chit, THEN, the state government began whining because gasoline taxes had dropped and they were experiencing a shortfall. Duh-h-h-h! So they promptly raised taxes on gasoline to make up for the shortfall they caused to begin with.
I'm tellin' ya's...we are all in a world of chit if we don't do something about all of this government stupidity and waste of tax dollars.
The city of Tucson did the same thing with water here, "Beat The Peak" and conserve water. When everyone did, they had to raise the water rates. But really, the city of Tucson is so mis managed that they use water revenue to pay for their idiocy.
Started here back in the early 70's when Pacific Power and Light asked people to not waste power for things such as Christmas lights, continued when uncle Jimmy asked us to set our thermostats to 65 degrees.
As for Pacific Power, they were concerned about needing to build another power plant............ If everyone conserved, an new one wouldn't need to be constructed.
Everyone obeyed, saved em from from building another plant.
Revenue of course went down, so rates went up.
Remember when diesel fuel was cheap because it is cheap to produce?
It's
still cheap to produce, but since they got everyone buying the more expensive diesel rigs because of their fuel mileage..... they decided it wasn't fair that diesel owners were going a lot farther on a gallon of fuel, so they raised the price.
We have a natural gas pipeline here now............ it's cheaper than electricity for heating................ Once they get 25% of the community to buy a new heating system and get hooked up, guess what's gonna happen?
Kinda like trying to find a faster way though town by avoiding stop lights................... Ya get stop signs instead.
How 'bout signing up for cable, internet, and phone for $39.95 with free movie channels for the first 6 months............ after 6 months it's gonna cost another $120
Fellas, ya can't win, so stop tryin to think you can.
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unless we vote for Nick!