LITTLE GEMS
Ribs.
There was a very popular segment of the very successful series called MASH on television years ago. The segment dealt with ordering, and somehow having delivered, a bunch of racks of spareribs to Korea (from stateside) during the war there. Adam’s Ribs were supposedly that good, and, of course, only in a television series could they have actually received the ribs. There are some great ribs around Lake Geneva. Not exactly Adam’s but good. Rosati’s Pizza, if you want to go totally local. Great ribs. Not cheap but what a sauce and perfect, fall-off-the-bone cooking. Then there’s LD’s BBQ in East Troy. Ribs are really terrific (or sliced brisket) and about the same price. Mukwonago also has David Alan Alan’s, and the ribs there are really great.
It’s about time.
About time for what? It’s about time that the citizenry, in general, decides to begin charging a premium for what is being done to the public on the part of the entire American oil industry. When cigarettes were finally certified to be dangerous to the American health the main reason that cigarette sales dropped from 50% of the population to a little less than twenty, in only a few years was only partially due to stiffer regulations on sales. Most of the drop, however, has been sourced to the public coming to find smoking socially unacceptable.
That’s what’s got to be done about the price of gasoline. When the price of oil went up to $110 a barrel, the price of gasoline went up 25%. The price of oil dropped to less than $90 over the last few months. The price of gasoline has remained steady. The U.S. is energy independent. It does not get oil, gas, or coal from Russia or Ukraine. So, what is going on? The oil companies, processors and, yes, local stations are all gouging the public, while silently giggling all the way to the bank. It’s time to stop lavishing love upon the organizations and people who run the stations.
The gas stations have all removed representation capability at their pumps or inside. There is no place to complain verbally and forget about writing. There’s nobody to write to, and these companies have made sure of that. Social rejection is the answer. The public still has to buy fuel at all these stations, but it doesn’t have to like the experience or the people it encounters. Many of the people who are ‘fronting’ these companies are nice and have no clue. Are they to be punished? This is a complex question. Meanwhile, every driver should back electric vehicles while endeavoring to make certain that electricity is not doled out in the same lying and thieving way as gasoline has been and still is.
