Jasper Jones

Great place to find gas prices anywhere in the U.S. or Canada is a website called Gas Buddy. I found it reading an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a map showing the price of gas at all the stations in the Bay area.

It is outrageously high in San Francisco. The map shows most stations charging $4.59 a gallon. Around here it is mostly $3.89, although when you head south to the Land of the Well-to-Do they are charging $4.04.

Turns out the web site has information on local gas prices all over the country, with lists and maps. So if you need to know where the cheap gas is in your area, check out Gas Buddy.

My mom went to get in her car this morning and unlike me who had a flat, she found a little kitten up under the wheel well of the tire. It’s a little grey and black striped kitten, looks like maybe 6 weeks or 8 weeks old. I peeked - it’s a little girl.

The kitten stayed up under the car, mewing pitifully. She didn’t want to drive the car in case the kitten got trapped up under the car or run over. So she took my dad’s car instead. When she got back from the store, the kitten was still there.

When I got back from the tire store the kitten was still there. We are puzzled at where it could have come from. None of our neighbors have cats - almost everyone on my street has one or more dogs, like us. I guess I’ll have to make a poster and tack it up on some of the poles in the neighborhood. Surely someone will claim this cute little thing.

Woke up this morning to a flat tire on my car. Glad I wasn’t in a hurry or on my way to work. That would have sucked even worse. I was just going to slide up to K-Mart and buy a couple pair of sweatpants shorts. The weather has gotten really warm and I want to cut the grass today, so I want a couple of cheap knock-around shorts.

Anyway, couldn’t get the tire off because it has some dang locking lugnut thing on it. I didn’t realize the locks were on there - I just bought a new set of tires right before Christmas - I know, Ouch! on the timing for that! - and the tire shop didn’t say anything about the locking lugnuts then. So the choices were call a tow truck ($75) or buy a can of fix-a-flat ($7) and drive it to the tire store.

Of course, when you put fix-a-flat in a tire the tire shop cannot repair the tire - you must buy a new one ($70) so I’m out $75 or $77 no matter what I do. So for the sake of getting it done and not waiting around for the tow truck, I put the fix-a-flat in the tire, drove it down to the tire store and told them to (1) put a new tire on the car to match the other 3, and (2) take off all those dang locking lugnuts and replace them with regular ones.

  Ticketbust.com is a site that is based in California. The sites main job is to get tickets dismissed so that traffic violators do not have to pay their fines. The administrators for this site are so confident that you will get you ticket busted, they offer a money back guarantee. Sherman Ellison, a California attorney with a dismissal rate of over 95%, says that if you want a ticket dismissed without hiring an attorney that this is your site. You can fight red light camera tickets, speeding tickets, parking tickets and more here. So if you are looking to bust your tickets, ticket busters is a good place to start.

  In the last month gas has gone to from around $3.55 to $3.75.  Soon this price will be over $4.00. a gallon.  The strange thing about this is that some big oil companies such as Exxon are having their most profitable times ever.  The last three quarters for Exxon have been record earning quarters for them. The problem with this is that if these companies are making so much money, why is gas still so expensive?  The answer is that people will not stop buying gas no matter what the price is raised to.  And better yet, there is a solution to this problem if people are willing to take action.  If everyone in the country were to boycott buying gas for a day, the oil companies would lose billions of dollars.  They would be forced to cut prices considerably.  If everyone did this for two days in a row, gas prices would drop by up to a dollar and fifty cents a gallon. So I encourage everyone to do this boycott.  I am suggesting that on June 1st and 2nd this boycott be put in effect. Lets tell big oil how we feel about their prices.