a pizza stone? one of those stone slabs for cooking, especially for pizza?? see, now, I'm jealous...
I remember Mastermind - this i found endlessly entertaining. Well, maybe not endlessly, but far beyond the threshold of those around me...
As for fuel prices, I was highly amused by this Stephen Colbert-ism:
''Nation, I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but gas is getting kind of pricey. It’s getting to the point where I can’t burn anyone in effigy anymore.
Things are so bad, people have been driven to the point of madness, believing that they are the President and can pass laws abolishing gas taxes.
And consumers, folks, are so angry at the gas companies that, for weeks now, the People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry have been forced to run full page ads in newspapers all over the country.
Here’s one I saw today in today’s The USA Today. It asks, ''Where does your gasoline dollar go?'' I actually thought that was a trick question because you cannot actually buy gas for a dollar.
As you can see here, 72 percent goes to the price of crude oil. Another 60 percent is eaten up by refining, distribution and service stations. And the last 12 percent is taken away by taxes. That's a total of 100 percent.
That is right nation. Oil is a zero profit business! I mean, they must have had a bake sale to pay for this ad. Yet, somehow, in 2007, Exxon Mobil made $1,300 a second. Thirteen hundred - yes, that’s a lot of money, but it is an unlucky number of hundreds.
That means that, even though 100% of the gasoline prices are canceled out by costs, these companies are somehow able to wring mind bending revenue out of the their not-for-profit venture. I think that’s pretty impressive. So, the next time you get a request from the Red Cross or The Humane Society, you send them 1 dollar. It is up to them to get 40.6 Billion out of it.''
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Date: 2008-06-30 05:24 am (UTC)I remember Mastermind - this i found endlessly entertaining. Well, maybe not endlessly, but far beyond the threshold of those around me...
As for fuel prices, I was highly amused by this Stephen Colbert-ism:
''Nation, I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but gas is getting kind of pricey. It’s getting to the point where I can’t burn anyone in effigy anymore.
Things are so bad, people have been driven to the point of madness, believing that they are the President and can pass laws abolishing gas taxes.
And consumers, folks, are so angry at the gas companies that, for weeks now, the People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry have been forced to run full page ads in newspapers all over the country.
Here’s one I saw today in today’s The USA Today. It asks, ''Where does your gasoline dollar go?'' I actually thought that was a trick question because you cannot actually buy gas for a dollar.
As you can see here, 72 percent goes to the price of crude oil. Another 60 percent is eaten up by refining, distribution and service stations. And the last 12 percent is taken away by taxes. That's a total of 100 percent.
That is right nation. Oil is a zero profit business! I mean, they must have had a bake sale to pay for this ad. Yet, somehow, in 2007, Exxon Mobil made $1,300 a second. Thirteen hundred - yes, that’s a lot of money, but it is an unlucky number of hundreds.
That means that, even though 100% of the gasoline prices are canceled out by costs, these companies are somehow able to wring mind bending revenue out of the their not-for-profit venture. I think that’s pretty impressive. So, the next time you get a request from the Red Cross or The Humane Society, you send them 1 dollar. It is up to them to get 40.6 Billion out of it.''