Sometimes when I have a spare moment, I post at the forums at gasbuddy.com. It amazes me the nonsense that people come up with. Talk of gas boycotts, adding acetone or some other crap into the fuel. Lots of those folks are hurting, but they don't know who to blame. Thus you get rants against OPEC, Exxon, the Government, Hippies, Environmentalists. Many of these don't make any logical sense, but if you consider that most of the people in the country are apparently ignorant of how supply and demand actually work, I guess it shouldn't surprise us..

I wouldn't say that everyone over there is that ignorant - there are a handful of people who try and keep the discussions reality-based...

Joe Sixpack watch CNBC!?! You've got to be kidding.

Of course not, heh. What I was attempting to communicate is that this opens the door for more discussion in the media -- and in the general direction that it needs to go. Once it saturates the media, it will become the new "Global Warming." Not everyone will be an it-getter, but it will be more prominent in the Collective Conscious.

Sort've a trickle-down effect, if you will.

Well, I was trying to tune to the game when the remote went dead and the TV was stuck on CNBC. I was too lazy to get up and change the channel. While I was waiting for the wife to go to the store and get batteries, I watched the show long enough to learn a few things.

When you travel, don’t put stuff on top of your vehicle. This causes drag and uses more fuel.

There is some web site I can go to that will give me the location of the cheapest gas prices in my area. Forgot what it was.

Keep the tires in your vehicle fully inflated to reduce road drag. I will have to have the little lady check that….