“Things fall apart.”

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

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How close are these people to the border?

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The only problem with Mexican gasoline is it gives American-made cars the squirts.

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Leave it to the Americans to act like a situation is apocalyptic before it really is.

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Going to Mexico seems foolish, but we are getting screwed on fuel. Say that they have it worse in Europe if you like, but that does not excuse the 300% increase in fuel costs over the last few years. Meanwhile, oil companies have record profits.

Something needs to be done.

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Ken — in parts of Chihuahua, around Ciudad Juarez, it’s worse than Sarajevo. Poke around the news sites
and you’ll see the horrible details. There’s a massive drug war going on in Juarez, with an out-of-town mob
pushing into the city, and murders are happening at an incredible rate.

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I realize I may not be clear here: I’m referring to Sarajevo circa the Bosnian War.

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“It’s worth taking the risk even with the violence,” said a retired California engineer named Terry, who declined to give his surname, as he filled his red Ford pick-up truck in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego. “I know they could kill me or kidnap me, but the cost of filling my tank in the United States is just too much,” he said.

Well if you’re stupid enough to make that argument, I guess your life probably isn’t worth the $1.40-a-gallon-minus-fuel-wasted-driving-to-Mexican-gas-station-and-back.

And of course, there’s no way this loser and his friends could possibly, uh, use less gas or something?

I stood in line at my local gas station (I live in Canada, which imports all of its fuel from Alberta and therefore shouldn’t be paying the equivalent of $5.25 per litre but is nonetheless) and listened to the guy with the V-8 pickup with the empty bed, 4-inch diameter exhaust pipe and a car seat squeezed in next to his wife, bitch about how much gas cost.

Under his arm he clutched three 1.5-litre bottles of water.

“Yeah,” I said “At this rate gas’ll soon be more expensive than Dasani, eh?”

I don’t think he got it, but I was too politic to say “Hey, goof. If you’re going to pay $1.85 a bottle for stuff you can get free out of the tap, don’t come to me with your consumer issues.”

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