XMas With Techron

Merry Xmas and Happy Hanukah to all.  For those of you who haven't recieved your gift from me yet, it will be 20 gallons of gasoline.  In Austin yesterday we saw gas on sale for $1.85 a gallon.  It was so cheap, even the 9/10 had dropped to 7/10.

Jill filled up at $2.19 in the morning, and it had dropped $0.30 (and 1/10) by the afternoon.  I was so excited, I drove around for hours, both to clear my tank for cheap gas, and to take advantage of the real-time commodity price drop.

For those of you who took economics (generally after washing out of engineering, science, or human ecology), you know that there are behavioral consequences to all economic realities.

Lower gas prices mean that big-ass SUVs will be back.  Indeed, Hummer announced the January release of the Hummer 4 (Electric Boogaloo*).

* NOTE: likely only three of my five readers will get this reference, and upon reflection, the "Electric" part is off, so we'll call it Hummer 4 (Fracking Massive).

On the freeway, I've already seen a spike in people driving big-ass cars with aggressive names.  There's something out there called an "Armada."  A car named after a fleet of warships built to extend  the reach of a colonial power.  It's big, but nothing like the new Ford Inquisition.  Or the Kia Mongolian Horde.

Even the hybrids are changing because gas is so cheap.  The Prius is still electric-powered, but they are adding a gas-powered radio.  And a flamethrower (too many have been destroyed by Chevy Blitzkriegs).

So, look for your gas gift to arrive in the new year.  I thought I'd get more resistance from the post office on delivering thirty-seven packages with 20 gallons of gas across sixteen states, but apparently they need the money.