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[gurdonark]

"I don't know what it was that was painful, but sometimes it's there in your face. There are times when you just look disdainful of the human race"--old Al Stewart song



When my co-counsel and I landed on Tuesday morning, our commercial airline flight came in through one of those surprising Summer squall thunderstorms that deserts seem to provide for reasons I fail to completely understand. They have a gasoline crisis here, because a pipeline failed to function as pipelines ought to do. As near as I can figure, they have no "anti-gouging" statutes here, and prices of everything seem to have skyrocketed accordingly. My rental car was priced at roughly double what it might have been, though I was able to negotiate to get one of those "green" hybrid Toyotas to drive. I figure that if I'm going to pay, I should get something quirky and weird.

Sometimes I wonder if I don't keep hunting for some solar powered car to drive me through a wave of people who charge 3 dollars a gallon when misfortune sets in.

But then I wonder if a Diet Coke might not be in order next.

Comments

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i'll be interested to see that. they seem to be withholding
them from the general public.~paul

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have a solar car, if that's what you mean about withholding, although the post's ambiguity suggests I'd want to plow through people, when I really meant I would drive by and wave politely :).

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

How was the hybrid? when I finally replace the Camry I'm gettin' a hybrid.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I love the hybrid! It has a little less pick up than a pure gas engine, but not so much as to distract. It's a fun little thing to drive.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

I imagine they'll only get better in years to come. thanks for the review.

[mesawyou.livejournal.com]

oooh, Write a review about your experience with the hybrid. I would be very interested. Granted, I have a Honda Civic which could very well last me a very long time but I would like to get a hybrid as my next car.