Useful Fools

We all knew that the California Governor recall race would provide some comedy, but who expected it to come from Lt. Gov. Gray Cruz Bustamonte? We thought that his primary claim to fame is his membership in the Mexican KKK.

But no… he’s deeper than we thought! Apparently wanting to out-do Gray Davis’ electrical blackouts, Bustamante is calling for gas shortages in California. Something in the water in Sacramento seems to lead to meddling with energy.

Of course, that’s not how he describes it… he just wants the gasoline industry regulated as a utility.

This means that when a gas company needs to change its price for gasoline, it has to go through regulatory procedures. These proceedings take months, involve thousands of pages of expensive paperwork, enrich many lawyers while boring them to death, and require lots of meetings where every fruit and nut (in plentiful supply in California) is given his/her/its chance to speak.

As any motorist knows, gasoline prices change very frequently. This is in response to rapid fluctuations in supply and demand, which are normal in this market. So what happens if you have to set your price in a process that takes months….

Say Arizona has a gas shortage caused by a broken pipe-line. The price in Arizona rises with the shortage. Gasoline sellers have a choice… sell their gasoline in California at, say, $1.60 per gallon, or sell it in Phoenix for $2.00 per gallon. Guess where the gasoline goes!

More importantly for Californians, guess where the gasoline ceases going! Yep, that’s right, gas shortage.

So vote for Bustamante, Californians, and add gasoline shortages to your power outages.

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But whatever happens, Californians, DON’T MOVE TO ARIZONA when you get tired of this.

Arizona is a terrible place to live:

• We have lots of guns and allow open carry or licensed concealed carry.
• We have plenty of conservatives.
• We have the country’s largest nuclear power plant.
• We allow evil-looking assault rifles&#153, and many of us have them - and we keep them pointed west.
• We don’t have Hollywood stars to tell us how to think.
• We don’t label everything that has a .00000000000001 chance of causing cancer.
• We used to have lots of trees to hug, but the environmentalists let them all burn.
• We don’t have a coastal commission.
• We have annual hunting seasons, including one on tree-huggers and another on animal-rights extremists.
• Barry Goldwater was from here.
• Dan Quayle and Gordon Liddy live here.

Trust me… you won’t like it!

Did I mention that I moved here from the People’s Republic of Santa Monica? Well, anyway, do what I say, not what I did!!!