My old Chevy is not a gas conscious car. I think I can safely say the only cars on the road that get less mileage than mine are….well, I can’t think of any. I am sure it is only single digits around town. It is a gigantic, heavy car with a gurgling, ineffective V8.

Gas is getting high too….about $2.25 cents a gallon here in Atlanta. I would say something like “I remember the ol’ days when gas was less than a buck a gallon” but those weren’t the old days. That was just a few years ago. Didn’t we win the war with Iraq anyway?

So I’m almost always on empty. It takes too damn long for the tank to fill up. Like the car and the engine, the tank is big. It holds just over 20 gallons I think. I get impatient at the pump waiting for it to click off so I put just enough in to get me through the next few days…when I’m right back at the pump thinking the same thing.

Today I was dead empty and for kicks decided to see how much it would cost to fill ‘er up. Just over 50 dollars. I cost me fucking 50 dollars to put a tank of gas in my car. I remember when I had the Volkswagon Scirocco back in the day it cost about $12. I still can’t believe it.

Shit is expensive these days. That’s all there is to it. Real wages (actual wages adjusted for inflation) have been dropping for more than two decades for all but the highest income brackets. The logical conclusion of all that is that one day things will become too expensive for everyone but those in the highest income brackets. I think that day has just come.

So what does any of that have to do with the price of tea in China??? Not a damn thing…..unless you’ve got to drive there to get it. The Chinese all have bicycles anyway.

2 Responses to “The price of tea in China”
  1. Anson says:

    I completely understand the frustration you are going through. Living in Fayetteville and driving to Cumming everyday is killing my bottom line, plus the mileage that is getting put on my car doesn’t help either. (71 miles one way, ugh)

    Web site looks great!

  2. Swirl says:

    I guess you should take a clue from the Book Club, and just let your mind take you there! I bet it’d be a lot cheaper.:)

    Swirl

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