The Fall of the Almighty Dollar

I guess we can thank the Anointed one for this!

"The dollar slumped to a 14-month low against the euro on Wednesday, pushing the price of gold to a record high and crude oil futures above 75 dollars for the first time in a year."

So when you see prices at the pump, remember, the president controls the monetary system, well at least has a large vote by appointing the Fed Chairman. A crappy dollar means more dollars are needed to buy the same amount of oil!

And as the libs pointed out Bush controlled oil prices to help republicans so that must mean Obama now controls oil prices and he is sticking it to the poor in the form of fuel tax.. Which is at 18.5 cents per gallon.

So an average 10 gallon tank of gas is costing you a $1.85 in taxes! Multiply that by 2.28 cars per house hold and 1 ten gallon tank per car per week = $4.21 or $219.33 annually in fuel taxes per family. Assuming that there are 100 million family's in the US, total revenue from personal vehicle fuel taxes would be just shy of $22 Billion annually!

Taking a swag at the cost per mile to build a highway in the US say $2million per mile averaging of course, the Government could build 11,000 miles of new interstate in 1 year on federal fuel taxes alone. That is roughly 4 new interstates from New York to California roughly 2700 miles!

Interesting.. Anyhow I hope you like purchasing your gas in Swiss Franc!

Where have they gone??

The courteous drivers that is? Lots of knuckleheads that like to pass on the shoulders here in the DC, NOVA areas. I am going to start posting pictures of folks that pass on shoulders so you all can be on the lookout for these crazy driver!!

In the past few days I have seen 3 different drivers passing on shoulders, on/off ramps and showing a basic disregard for the rules laws and common courtesy on the interstates!
I encourage all drivers to call the Virginia State Police (#77) and report these drivers and also, if you think about it, snap a picture and post it!

"Dial #77 on a cellular telephone. This is the most effective means to report a reckless and dangerous driver to the Virginia State Police. Provide a vehicle description, license number, location and, if possible, direction of travel. Every effort will be made to dispatch a trooper to the location to witness the driver’s behavior and take appropriate enforcement action. "