P̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶P̶i̶t̶c̶h̶ Perfect Time

[P@rick]

...spent $8/gallon on gasoline...

This is exactly what we do in the Netherlands ... it hurts ;-)

[bloke]

...spent $8/gallon on gasoline...

This is exactly what we do in the Netherlands ... it hurts ;-)

I know where you are, and I know what you pay.
It's not difficult to figure out who is responsible for it costing that much, and their motive for adding $6 on to what your retail vendors charge.

[bloke]

I can get pretty darn good tasting coffee (as long as I avoid Maxwell House's dried sewage bits, and avoid paper filters) with the right combination of most of the low-cost ground coffee brands, water, and water temperature.

[iiipopes]

And now, where I live, on a Friday afternoon approaching 5:00, it is getting to be the perfect time to go pitch a few back.

[Three Valves]

Mix yourself up something classy, James!!

[peterbas]

...

[bloke]

Some of us over here – who are descendants of those who preferred liberty over serfdom, and fought to exercise those natural rights – still uphold those values.
Serendipitously, we also prefer $2.50/gal. gasoline over $8/gal. gasoline, which additionally affords us the privilege of virtually unlimited egress.
Here, it is quite a paradise - as long as we avoid crowding into the densely-populated areas - where people have - sadly - embraced the concepts of European-style serfdom.
Unlike the purveyed false propaganda, no one who enters a hospital in the United States is refused care, and - were it not for an infinite power to print and borrow money falsely raising the prices of medical services (with a synthetically-created infinite demand for finite services), far more Americans would be able to easily afford to pay for medical services out of their own earnings, rather than via insurance policies or government aid...but it’s difficult to explain this to those who’ve been taught to embrace dysfunctional Keynesian economics, and who’ve been taught to reject (real) Austrian economics.
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I’m not sure what this has to do with the topic, but I guess (already off topic) gasoline taxation wanders off into the topics of draconian income confiscation and serfdom.

[peterbas]

...

[bloke]

Our rulers are eagerly taking it away, and nearly half the people - who are interested in such issues - are eager for them to do so, while offering forth non sequitur and nonsense distractions at the same time.

[P@rick]

So many cultural and historical differences, which explain why it's "like this over there" and "like that over here"...but there is one thing what unites us...

[Three Valves]

and

[P@rick]

and

...how could I forget ...