High gas prices

[mr402]

What they say about China using a lot of as is quite true. I've been to Beijing and Shanghai a few times. Let me tell you that the car traffic there is worse than most big cities here. Lines in the road are treated as suggestions. 3 lane streets running 4 or 5 cars wide are normal. They're also running a lot of 2 stroke motorcycles and weird looking cart things. Since we're exporting so many jobs there they now have more money to purchase cars etc. China will soon have as big an appetite for gas as the US and may easily surpass us.

Also heard about record profits at Texaco recently. The richer get richer while I go broke.