Reply #6: Hard to say, people are such dumba@@es [View All]

For awhile gas was going up steadily every day. I finally noticed that the SUVs and trucks that would usually "gun it" around me (while gesturing rudely), were instead following me, or waiting until they could safely pass in a civilized manner.

Last week, gas stayed around the same price for almost a week, and they went back to driving like creeps. One even got so PO'd about me holding him up that he punched it around me, slammed on his brakes, and opened his door menacingly.

I was going up the freeway off ramp one day when I noticed a car riding my bumper. I thought, "You're supposed to be slowing on the ramp, not speeding up.", so I took my foot completely off the gas, and coasted. When I got to the stop sign I noticed the car was a new hybrid. The idiot bought a hybrid just so he could drive the same old way.

On the local news tonight I learned that electric bills were going to go up 30% in one fell swoop! I live in the dark at night, I only turn my water heater on when I absolutely need to; there's nothing left I can do. It was 90 the other day, and my neighbor asked me why I didn't have my air conditioner on. I told her it wasn't mine, that it was left here by another tenant, and anyway WTF did people do before the air conditioner was invented? She told me I was ODD. And I thought....nevermind.

It's just too bad all the money I've been saving on electricity and gas will have to go toward the purchase of an "equalizer" to keep in the car, and defend myself against out-of-control heathens.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that those who have no clue, those who have never conserved for the sake of conservation are going to be the first to go totally nutso.