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Over priced (2003-08-25 - 11:55 a.m.) The government is out to get us. They�re killing us off slowly with out-of-control gas prices and astronomical cigarette costs. Are the car driving/ cigarette-smoking citizens of this fair city doomed to live in poverty due to high prices? I can remember paying $3.25 for a pack just a few years ago; I can also remember it costing me $16.00 to fill the tank of my car. When I saw the sign outside of Esso this week, stating that gas was now at 89.9, I had a conniption. My car went swerving into the breakdown lane, almost flattening an old lady pushing a walker. (Oh, well, there�s 100 points that I wont be racking up. I�ll get the kid riding a bike next time.) It�s gotten to the point that smoking weed is cheaper than smoking cigarettes, and let�s not forget that it�s 10 times easier for a kid under 18 to buy drugs, than smokes�but that�s a whole other entry. What in the hell is this world coming to? The government has all this anti-tobacco propaganda, telling you that you�ll die a horrible death if you smoke, canceling all tobacco company backed sporting events, because you know that every 13 year old kid will start smoking Players Light because they�re helping out the Indy races�sure. Why can�t they leave us alone, so we can inhale our poison in peace? They�ve already sectioned off T1m Hortin�s and other family rest tops with poorly ventilated �aquariums� for us smokers to sit in and enjoy our over priced coffees. You�ve got to love that. You really feel like an equal while you�re drinking your morning cup-a-joe, with a fish�s view of the world, looking through smoke stained glass, to the world outside. A world where you�ve got to pay $50.00 to fill up your gas tank, a world where a six pack is the same price as a pack of smokes. And they wonder why Canada dropped from the worlds #1 country to live in. |