Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:50:47 AM
Why not ride your bike to work? Carpool? Get a bus pass? Walk?
Correspondent Jeff Glor then reported on how, "...desperate times call for desperate measures. Some people are doing anything they can to save on gas, while others are trying to avoid buying gas altogether." As one example, Glor highlighted a woman from San Antonio, Texas named Jessica Busby: "Then there's Jessica Busby, using her bike to get to a blood donation center two times a week. She pumps out her own blood, making $40 a pop so she has enough money to pump gas."
Jessica Busby, 19, is one of a growing number of people that are donating some of their blood’s plasma for gas money.
The growing numbers of people doing this for gas money? Give me a frickin break! These stories really tick me off. I'm supposed to get all mushy feeling for this person? I live in San Antonio just like this moron. San Antonio is pretty spread out, but give me a break. I have three kids, a mortgage, two car notes, bills, and pay for gas just like everyone else. I commute forty miles to work each day round trip - that's 200 miles a week, 800 miles a month. And I still manage to have enough money to fill up my cars, even with the higher prices - and not have to sell off my bodily fluids to pay for it..
How many people, really, have adjusted their lives to accomodate the price of gas? I mean really adjusted? Not just cutting out some driving, but actually having to make serious, drastic steps to account for the higher fuel costs. I know it is less than is being hyped by the media. I'm not saying there aren't people having to make adjustments, but this is this persons ONLY recourse?
And the math doesn't add up. If she is really doing this twice a week, every week - that's $320 dollars in gas a month! I don't spend that much money on gas filling up two cars with all the driving my family and I do. Granted I don't drive a SUV to work. I drive a Chevy Cavalier. And we also have a V6 minivan. And we put over a 1000 miles a month on both cars. And I live in the same town this person does and drive many miles to work every month.
I call bullshinola!
Busby said she was “totally strapped for cash” and needed to find a way to keep her gas tank full.
If I had to guess, this person is living WAY outside her means - like most Americans, and is unwilling to make REAL (though hard) adjustments to her lifestyle. I bet even money she has a cell phone. Does she have cable TV? I find it interesting there is no mention of the type of vehicle she drives in the story - is it an SUV? A sports car? It is most assuredly more vehicle than she needs if she is having this much trouble filling it up.
Gas here in San Antonio is only a dollar more a gallon than it was a year ago. So on average (depending on which vehicle) I'm spending about $50-$75 more a month on gas than a year ago for TWO vehicles. Yes, that's $50-$75 I could be spending on other things but it is hardly enough to cause my family a financial crises.
I can only hope the Dem nominee and a Dem congress can start to turn this sluggish supertanker of an economy around.
This person is kidding right? It's under a Dem congress that the gas prices have skyrocketed! Show me where the government has involved itself in anything and made it cheaper!
I'm sure there is more to this story, but as is typical the MSM doesn't offer too many details.
Just enough info for a sob story to push an agenda.