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One of my friends on ShitSpace posted this bulletin:

Don’t pump gas on May 15th
Body: Don’t pump gas on May 15.

In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices.
Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all myspace members are to not go to a gas station in protest of
high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the myspace network, and the
average car takes about 20 to 30 dollars to fill up.

If all myspace members did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,200,000,000.00 (that’s BILLION) out of the oil company’s pockets for just one day.

If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldn’t) repost this bulletin repost it with
‘Don’t pump gas on May 15th

As anyone with some form if intellect can painfully see, there is a big-fucking-problem with this logic. Sure, you can do a “strike” for one day, but you still have a car, right? Don’t know if you folks knew this or not, but you car will still need gas — good intentions be damned. ‘Tis be the nature of the beast.

So instead of filling up on May 15th, you fill up the day after, or the day before. Basically, you’re still giving the oil companies your money. They’re still getting their $2.2 billion that they’re supposed to “lose” that day.

See kiddies, they think for the long term. Contrary to popular belief, greed does not equate to stupidity; stupid people are greedy, or greed may be the impetus for stupidity, but greed isn’t stupid. See, they know you have a car, and that you must fill your car with gas. (More refined countries call it “petrol”, by the way.) Catch-22. They win, even if they have to placate the generally idiotic public by dropping the gas .30 cents.

Instead, the smarter thing to do would be to ride bikes, walk, car pool, or even budget your trips. For instance, make a list of things you need to get, and shop at one place. Bargain hunting these days is mostly through the internet anyway, and you end up spending more money (and time!) running around trying to price match and “get the best deal”.

So go ahead and don’t go to the gas station on May 15th… Just go on May 14th… or May 16th… Or any other day other than May 15th.

At the end of the day, you still haven’t solved the problem of dependence on foreign oil. Solve that, and the gas prices will address themselves.

The DVD movie “Babylon 5: The Lost Tales” will be released July 31, 2007. Read more here.

Matt and Nat of bsgcast.com have pretty much summed up my thoughts on the rather lackluster third season of Baltarstar Galactica, and it was hilarious to boot.

“When the commander of the Battlestar Galactica tells you to jump the shark, you jump the shark!” 

Oh, and Matt did an excellent Baltar impression as well — the Adama torture scene and prison cell skit were downright hilarious.

Again, frakkin’ hilarious, and (sadly) dead on. Hope RDM and company can pull something out of some super-creative ether and give us a great 4th (and possibly final) season.

Then again, it could be worse… It could be “Lost”. Pfft.

Mercifull posted this on the Battlestar Wiki blog, and I thought I’d do something similar here.

Here’s something that should be pretty cool.

Here’s also some cool links:

• Sanctuary For All - Official Website
• SanctuaryFans.com
• SanctuaryWiki.org, a Frak Media production

Haven’t blogged in a while, so I thought I’d post this here. It’s the faux trailer for the movie “Thanksgiving”, that was part of the wonderful movie, “Grindhouse”. Very funny stuff!