Screw the rebate and, instead, just cut the price increases.  Once that’s achieved, then “screw” the “screwers” who were trying to gougingly “screw” the People.

As for some price increase, this is most definitely justifiable for Americans, for they or we have been the most selfish of all, getting fuel for very low cost while others get majorly “screwed” and Americans have happily pigged out all along.  Americans have an awful tendency to complain about price increases all while being the most demanding in terms of wages or incomes, constantly forgetting about the essential need to grow out of being hellishly selfish.

That’s of course not all Americans, but it unfortunately, very, is reflective of the vast majority nevertheless.  I recall back in the 1990s when the price of postage for regular ground mail anyway was increased by one or two cents, above the former what, 30 or 31 cents per stampe, wickedly and broadly complaining about this, while obviously having no concern whatsoever for people employed in the postal services, the needs of these people.

It’s a constant theme with the US and Americans, too vastly many of them anyway, and it’s a matter or problem that needs to be HALTED or cured once and for all.

Yet we can’t support corporations gouging, either.

Here, in Ca (Canada), we don’t have the corporations to fault for the considerably much higher fuel prices here, for around half of the cost is all government taxation.  From an article I recently read, the government imposes a 40% tax, and the federal government adds on the federal GST, Goods and Services Tax, and this is a special tax, for it taxes taxes, the taxation already imposed.  So we have consumers paying the initial 40% gouger tax, in addition to the GST which taxes that 40% tax.

Talk about flagrant lunacy, racketeering, and a-la totally fascist model.

Americans talk about $3 per gal. of gas., while Canadians are in the $4 and above area.  Talk about Americans paying $4 a gal., and Canadians will then be talking about $5 or more a gal.  Currently, in Ca, the average price, in Quebec anyway, is around $1.15 a not gallon but litre, and there are 33.8 ounces per litre, which means that it takes four litres minus 7 ounces in order to constitute what’s defined as a US measured gallon, less than half a pint, therefore less than 1/8, of difference, in terms of quantity.  Meanwhile, the price differential, between Canadian and US prices, it is around 25% more, here.  Yet a HUGE proportion here goes to taxes, and taxation upon taxation.

Want to find higher prices?  Look to European countries, UK and France anyway.  Over the past week I read or started to read an article on the pricing in the UK, and they’re talking about 1 pound per litre, so not being sure of how much this really means, I used an internet provided currency conversion calculator.  It works out to around $2 (Cdn) per litre (not per gal., but litre), so they’re talking about roughly $8 per US-measured gal. there.

Now, we can talk about all the schmuck North Americans who piss, shit and do everything else they can upon people stuck with government provided welfare “aid”.  These people get absolutely no adjustments with respect to inflation, and cost of living, they just get crumbs from the table of the “kings and queens” of our world, and that’s when the crumbs are at all wholesome to begin with.  It’s starvation “aid”.

Our jobs or job markets are majorly offshored, outsourced, and insourced, we end up totally bankrupt and therefore in need of some funds, so we accept to take from government welfare (after all, it’s the same government that put us in the position we’re in anyway and it therefore deserves to pay and Big Time, although awfully insignificant is the so-called aid).  Reasonable that is, but we’re treated as trash, while being innocent, not responsible for our fates, the injustices committed against us, and for which we can’t be arguably proven to be wrong or mistaken, except in terms of having had some faith in those people who are supposed to be managing on behalf of and in service to The People.

It’s fully a world of PIRACY, ruthless, cold-blooded, egotistical, ..., piracy.  If I could only collect my just rewards or compensation, or reparations from those who really do owe and will remain owing to me, for as long as we each live anyway, then I could really do something with the rest of my life.  But, hey, folks, this due justice is not forthcoming, it’s not a standard in our world.  It’s extremely far from standard, and the hellish pigs of our world just keep reaping ever more wealth, ..., never providing Justice.

That Americans are finally paying what they should have long been paying for fuel, now this is a welcome matter.  However, that corporations gouge consumers in the process, this is distinct matter to very carefully consider, for no sane governments can afford to support USURY and therefore theivery, ....

Balance is needed.  The “trick” is to get to real balance.  Yes, Americans should pay a lot more than what they’ve been accustomed to and for many decades already, but how much more, 100%, 200%, 300%, ..., this needs to be very carefully assessed, for to be unjust, piggish in any sense is to be Wrong(ful), and that’s never to be welcomed but opposed?  At $3 a gallon, I think Americans are beginning to pay their fair share of the overall, worldwide consumption, at least at $2.50 a gal. anyway.

Over a decade ago I was paying, a-la cheapest between Ontario and Quebec, 63 cents a litre, but you didn’t find that in Que., unless you were borderline into Ontario.  (At that time, going to the US provided a US-gal. at a mere $1.15 to max. $1.33 a gal., for me, depending on whether I bought on the Indian reservation in northern NY state, or outside, and the price differential was so little that it really didn’t matter, for the tank held a max. of 16 gallons anyway. $1.60 more or less really was INSIGNIFICANT.) Now, today, and it’s lower than it went up to last winter, we’re talking about $1.14 per litre, at the least expensive gas stations anyway. (And war on Iran has not been fully launched yet, for while it’s actually begun, it’s still in active but nevertheless “only” commencement, “preparatory” stage.)

But if people pay very careful and comprehensive attention to all of US history, and much enough of the same applies to Ca, for they’re both reflective of invasions, followed by conquest and domination of HELLBENT order, and never is it truly or significantly regretted, for the pigs’ descendants are relentless in terms of what their ancestors started, well, you will be able to see the connection.  These are cultures of PIGGERY, “plain and simple”.

It’s very peculiar that in Quebec we have some whacky RCC clergyman (or men) pretending that the blessed mother of Jesus of Nazareth said of Ca, “doux Ca”, docile, non-maligant, ..., Ca, and it’s a putrid religious joke, for this is certainly no doux country.  It wasn’t towards the First Nations Peoples, who continue, ever onward to be oppressed, etc., hellishly, and it’s certainly not with regards to citizens of a country or government which on the surface (only) pretends to be Democratic.  It’s again more European hellishness brought and imposed upon what should have been sanely and fully treated as the New World, to give up the evil ways previously learned and indoctrinated into supporting.

Sure, we can go around and en masse point to all of the extreme FAILURES of humanity, and most people still won’t learn from this anyway.  History has rendered this as EVIDENT.  But Americans really need to cease being so cursably self-centered that all they can ever use is their own costs of living to be active or activist, while totally disregarding the most serious wrongs in our world.  It’s American to be that putrid way, all, most anyway, of US history illustrates this “loud and clear”, but why the hell do people opaquely and stubbornly refuse to listen to others who have something truly worthy to say or teach!  It’s the American Way, idiots!

And it’s time for Americans to wake up out of their cursably selfish world of self or selves, and alone, all others being, for one reason or another, unworthy of American consideration.  To hell with you jerks and whereever such schmucks are in our world, which national origin, etc., these bastards of humanity are from (and bastards they are, most very clearly so).

So, Americans, wake up and greet paying more for fuel.  It’s DUE damned time that you begin to finally pay something into this world, instead of being a hellbent bastard beast that only wishes to prey upon all others.

Bleeding, now that’s something Americans really need to do, and Big Time.  Bleed en masse, for you have an awful lot of catching up to do, to get with the rest of the world.

And don’t blame Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein, ..., for nationalising natural resources and thereby being able to really provide for the poor, as well as other members of these societies or countries, for this is the way these should be managed, as national resources, to benefit all members of the nations practicing this principle of governance, for natural resoures belong to the nations the resources are found in, not to individuals, but to the peoples of these nations.

That’s the Natural Course, but don’t ask US government to follow this course, for it’s contrary to what the US government has really, silently, secretly, but nevertheless really come to be about.

Here in Ca, we just have fascist governments to make matters all the worse, and Americans should not think that Ca’s great just because it [cannot] be a superpower in our world and therefore seems ok.  It’s not a safe country, but is safer than many others.  Ca is another asinine country, plenty of very selfish people, etc., and warmongers en masse too, etc.,

Ca’s not great, it’s hellbent, but not totally.  It’s not accepting the totally legitimate call from US military veterans from the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, totally unjustifiable and hellbent wars, to come here, as happened under former PM Pierre Trudeau.  This is no Trudeau or Pearson government, and there certainly hasn’t been any of that quality at least since Jean Chretien (schmuck idiot that idiot is and evidently will always be).  Am not sure about Chretien, but oh, wait, yes, there was schmuck Molroney, Brian, the schmuck, and schmuckery I’m not kidding or joking about (it’s joke, sure, but awfully real, too, i.e, SICK JOKEry).

Relax monsieurs, “mon seigneurs” Americanos, you ain’t paid nothing yet for all you’ve profited from; NOTHING!

Well, that’s what I have to say with respect to the People in general, but corporations gouging, this nevertheless needs to be sanely controlled.  Government, especially under a Constitution like that of the US, which explicitly specifies government for, of and by the people, such government cannot be just when it is siding with corporate interests, or any purely subjective interests, regardless of sphere.

And that’s why the US government, if to be true to the US Constitution, must allow same-gendre marriage, for the Constitution states “freedom of religion”, “freedom to speak”, and even Jesus did not condemn homosexual unions.  He never said anything on homosexuality whatsoever, for that matter.

It’s welcome to learn that Americans are starting to pay a closer to fair price for fuel, ..., and it’ll be really great if Americans can and do seriously learn from this experience, for if they do, then they’ll be able to realise what they’ve been egotistically, ..., on the rest of the world, of non-petrol resource nations anyway, and for many decades already.

Oh, do Americans have a LOT to wake up to.  Real reality has “escaped” them for so damnably long it’s ridiculous that people could be so cursably [ignorant], selfish, etc.  Americans are therefore “Shock & Awe” alright, shockingly awing peoples all over our world for centuries, already.  It was trivial for GWB to speak of “shock & awe” on Iraq, it’s reflective of most of US history to begin with.

I don’t ask that the fuel prices go down.  What I ask for is justice and therefore a Just balance.  What that point is, I don’t know.  Maybe it’s $2.50 a gal, or $3, or $4, I don’t know, for I haven’t performed the analysis, and haven’t read enough about what the answer is, although have read and realised enough to be able to know that Americans have been ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly pirating away en masse and for a very long time already.

Probably most consumers in the US don’t know how it is that they have gotten life so “on the cheap” while others are CRUSHED.  But that is a matter to Wake Up to, not to be continuously be ignored or disregarded, which is the way of far too many of most Americans (ignorant as hell, although hell’s not ignorant, it, mainly anyway, just pretends to be.)

Pay, sob’s, or else count yourselves out of the rest of humanity!  That’s my “take”, but it may not be in line with Jesus, in which case I’d like to know, for while I wish to be one with Him, my humanity nevertheless exists and will persist to do so.

A big problem is that the rest of humanity doesn’t treat the US the way it deserves and should be.  Too many people are nothing but what Canadians (I learned here from experts at this, my first employers here) consider as “brown nosers”.

This Canadian-American-Canadianised-again individual got to learn from “purely” Canadians about “brown nosing”, and it stunned me at the time, when the Canadian engineering consultancy employer addressed such words towards me, for I had never before heard of this.  I knew of schmucks, but not brown-nosers, and Canadians taught me well enough that they know what they’re talking about when they address this, for they’ve very culpable, and admittingly or not, speak from personal experience.

Ca’s a majorly brown-nosing country or government too.  Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, and now schmuckaroonie Stephen Harper, the new and so-called PM of today, all of these people PROVE that Ca’s s brown-nosing little sh*t as it is.  Harper, like Martin and Chretien were, they’re so “smooth” that they even FOOL Canadian military into embarking upon supporting, defending and enforcing hellbent bs.

What a schmuck country. But like in the US and all other countries in our world, we have people who “see” through the masks or masking.

Anyway, yes, Americans need to start to finally pay for what they benefit and/or profit from, instead of constantly and solely CRUSHING other people(s) just so Americans can have life a-la so-called Great.

That you or we schmucks finally start to pay our way and fully so, very considerably anyway, this is a great thing.  My concern is not whether or not American bastards of our world finally pay their dues, for it’s “a given” that they need to do so, it’s which parties are profitting, where the profit is, and whether or not it is justifiable, instead of gouging.

$3 (US) for a (US) gal. of fuel, hey folks, much of the rest of the world, non-petrol resource countries anyway, has been paying as much and more for a long time.

Americans stand to learn a LOT from US history alone, nationally and internationally.  Americans really have no other place to best begin than by truly learning about the history of their own country.  Until that is achieved and provided, Americans really have NO say in this world, and it is they, not the rest of the world, who make this SO.

At least your fuel prices aren’t as high as ours, which are about 1/3 or so higher, and of which roughly half is only taxation, not monies going to retailers and the oil industry corporations.

That, however, seems to point in a direction that might be worth investigating.  If these corporations charge so little in Ca, f.e., while being pigs in the US, then is there a significant difference in terms of profitability here vs in the US?  If yes, then why, how is this justified, for corporations should have no rights to sell at higher costs vs lower, only depending on region? That can be justified in terms of being Charitable in a sound, healthy sense, but we have no guarantees in this respect, either.

“See”, there are variables to consider, and it is very important to carefully do so, for it’s essential for Sacred Balance, which is not an optional matter, for it’s essential.  We need real balance, sane, sound, healthy balance, and that’s what Sacred Balance (coined by grand David Suzuki) says.  We need to get with what is of essence, essential matter, and to learn to put aside luxuries, superfluousness.

Americans screamed out en masse when postage stamps increased only a penny or two, max. three, wth complete disregard for Reality.  Americans need to wake up to Reality and fast.  It is essential that Americans finally wake up to what their and the world’s true realities are.

War on Iraq was being launched, was strongly commenced, and what did we have in the US?  We had a hellish lot of noise from homosexuals demanding that the government provide same-gendre civil marriages.  We had the so-called religions, especially among so-called Christian leadership, leading, full-steam, against same-gendre marriage being provided by state, while it had absolutely nothing to do with religion whatsoever and was in accordance to the US Constitution explicitly legislating freedom of religion and speech, and against Jesus’ holistically sound teaching or commandment to keep church and state [separate].  We had awfully little with respect to opposing hellbent war of aggression and one that very obviously was that for anyone who paid any meagre/maigre attention to this committed threat of war.

People really need to wake UP and fast.

People talk about leftists, rightists, liberals, conservatives, ..., and NONE, awfully few anyway, of these people have a real clue what the heck they’re talking about.  Let me tell’ya bud, my right side does not argue, offend or fight against my left side, they’re both equally part of me, and all I need is to find out how each is of benefit, vs of less benefit, and to then stick with whichever is of greatest benefit.  Sometimes (am a right-hand sob) my left happens to be handier, and I have no problem with that, only needing to know how best to address a particular problem.

My right and left arms, legs, eyes, ears, ..., they all get along quite harmoniously.  And as for conservative or liberal, I’m both, only depending on what the particular subject at hand is.  In some cases I’ll opt for conservatism, and it’s only through that that we can sustain life in a healthy way, f.e.  When, however, being conservative means or implies to support Wrong, then I’m liberal alright, definitely, and it must stay that way.

This also helps to illustrate why it is that I have no care whatsoever for the du-fous US military generals, ..., all of retired status (to boot, i.e., for extra weak icing) calling out for the resignation of shmuckaroonie Rumsfeld.  These military, former anyway, schmucks are opaque as hell is, although there are or is one or two who spoke out far more welcomely and truthfully, and they’re not the ones I’m targetting (albeit would need to further investigate on a personal, one-on-one basis, to be fully certain), well, one of these generals went and produced an article on this so-called dissent of his.

What did he say that got me ticked off?  He bs’dly said that the oath of US military officers is not to the US president and therefore c.i.c., but to the Constitution.  That’s fine and right, but he added that the oath of US military service members serving under officers, well, their oaths are to their officers.  That’s BS.  Why?  Very simply, these others have an obligation to do what they can to make sure that orders received are indeed right, or, minimally, justifiable. And as I learned during my USN, Navy, bootcamp training around 30 years ago provided, this means that when an officer is out of line, then lower ranking military members have not only a right but also an obligation to make sure that these orders are not obeyed.

There you go folks.  USA 101: BS culture, it is.

Don’t tell Stephen Harper, Jean Charest, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, ..., about this though.  They’re more opaque than opaque means.

Mike Corbeil
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