Why Does Gas Cost So Much

Mish-Mash has figured out why gas prices are going up:

How is it that we have come to have an oil shortage? The first three answers are from an email, the rest are from… somebody else:

  • Nobody bothered to check the oil.
  • We just didn't know we were getting low.
  • While our oil is located in Alaska, California, and Texas, our dipsticks are all in Washington DC
  • Bush failed to live up to his campaign promise to steal oil from Iraqi orphan children
  • Perpetual motion energy turned out to be a hoax
  • New Humvee-SUV hybrid depleted most of the national reserves during its first test drive
  • Lack of trained samurai made it easy for ninja's to steal our oil reserves
  • Environmentalists said we could run cars on apple cider
  • They were lying
  • Halliburton decided oil spills are more evil than the American economy, and has been dumping all of its oil into the pacific ocean
  • We'll worry about it when it runs out completely
  • Jimmy Carter