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Last Monday, i bought gas for $1.85… Today, that same place sold it to me at $2.15….. Holy Crappo!… I’m paying 20 cents more for gas than I did a week ago….
People were still driving.
No one was declaring bankruptcy.
No one lost their home.
No one took public transportation.
All the doomsday scenarios put forth by Ms. Longhurst when she adamantly refused to put a bill on the floor that would save Delawareans $1000 a year in wear in tear on each of their vehicles by keeping our roads free of potholes for just half, half, half, only half of what just occurred at the pump in Delaware last week…
For just half of that jump that didn’t end the world. Delawareans could be fixing roads. putting people to work, and saving big, big bucks by years end off of the non-existent wear and tear of their car… And still be saving $1.50 per gallon over what was being paid less than 6 months ago….
So instead of fixing our roads and saving $1.50 per gallon, we are paying the exact same amount we would have anyways, with oil companies keeping that ten cents instead of it going our highway system…
Sometimes people do stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid things… And when they do, they should get called out on it (ideally it keeps others from doing the same stupid thing next time)…. And not passing a measly 10 cent gas tax last session was as stupid as stupid comes….
Can we get it done now, please? Or is the world going to end tomorrow?
Last week I was overjoyed to pay $2.88 a gallon for gas. This week I was overjoyed to pay $2.78. But it shows exactly how little 10 cents a gallon really was.
Now, we don’t have new roads. Now we have congestion. Now our potholes take way too long to fix….
Now we won’t have 2,500 highway construction jobs we could have had… And you would never even know you were paying for them….
It is sad… just sad that the betterment of all Delaware’s men, women, and children, was put on the back burner so people could “pretend” they didn’t like “taxes”.
One wheel alignment because one hit one pothole, costs more than the invisible cost of 10 cents a gallon on gas under $3.00…..
Today, instead of paying $2.84 for per gallon of gas, we’d be paying $2.94: the price of gas last Friday.
Now because we aren’t paying what we paid last Friday for gas, we can’t have improvements on any of our roads. We won’t be able to fill pot holes. We can’t properly plow the roads during snow time. Bottlenecks will remain bottlenecks with no plans to expand the highway system.
And there will be 7,700 fewer people working at high paying jobs in Delaware as a result…
Thanks Valerie Longhurst, for making Delaware a second tier state…… What on earth were you thinking?
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