A Gallon of Milk vs. A gallon of Gas

Not many days ago I was in dire need of milk to munch on a bowl of my favorite cereal.  As soon as I pulled out I couldn’t help but notice that the gas tank was on empty.  No problem, I thought to myself I’ll make short work of these two small errands and catch Sports center’s early edition: see what my mans LeBron is doing and of course catch up with K.D. and the Oklahoma City Thunder.  But when I nascar my vehicle through pit row at my local gas station I noticed gas had gone up 20 cents overnight!  I try to be a good Christian but to be quite honest I cursed.  It annoys me to know 90% of the world’s wealth is already controlled by 5% of the populace. Aren’t they ever satisfied?  The rich just keep on getting richer at the expense of John Q. Public and Susie D. Citizen.  I yielded a 20 dollar bill but at 3.59 a gallon that only amounted to 5 and half gallons, paltry I may as well be a pedestrian. I moved on though to my local grocery store and sweet Jesus hallelujah!  The price of the milk was exactly the same!  I started to think….how ironic.  On the surface there seems to be no correlation but if you think about it there are some uncanny similarities and perhaps this is why they are both 3.59 a gallon.

Gas comes from deep in the bowels of the earth; milk comes from deep in the bowels, only the bowels of Bessie the cow.  Gas has to be pumped out of the well with the oil; milk has to be pumped out of Bessie’s teats.  Gas has explosive chemical properties and is used in the internal combustion of engines to generate power.  Milk interestingly has explosive properties in the bellies of the lactose intolerant, causing internal combustion in their engines, and believe this blogger who is lactose intolerant, it has power!  One can gas up the car and scoot all over town, One, can also drink 2 glasses of milk, then poot and scoot all over the couch.

Well perhaps there isn’t as much comparison as I first presumed, but this I know to be true;  Wherever, the demand for  consumer goods are great, the conditions are ripe for manipulation, exploitation, gouging  and abuse.  That is the true link; the “staples” for life our culture has built a high demand for are now being used as shop vac’s to gradually suck all the excess loot out of our already thin pockets.  If the trend continues and the corporations keep pimping the American populace I expect the price of toilet paper to sky-rocket.  A lady and a gentleman may have to forego the Angel Soft brand and buy that ole John Wayne toilet paper, and then we will really be suffering.  Everybody knows or should know, that John Wayne toilet paper is rough, tough, and don’t take stuff off of nobody!