Media, Stop Telling Me the Price of Gas in Gorda, CA

Back in 2000, I took a trip to San Francisco to play in one of their very hippie Ultimate Tournaments. It was called Revolution and it was a coed tournament in which each team was to have a "cause". Since we had, over the last couple of years, lost several in the Dallas Ultimate community to the Bay area, our cause was to bring Shiner Bock to the Bay. It was not received well by the anti-corporate, anti-American, anti-everything coordinators. And real causes were a requirement the next year.

But I digress.

That year, instead of just flying into San Francisco, I flew in to LAX, rented a convertible and drove the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway to SF.
There is a long stretch of PCH in which there is nothing but ocean and winding narrow road between San Simeon and Big Sur. I had neglected to get gas in San Simeon and soon started to panic as each turn of the road revealed yet another place with no gas station.

Finally, in remote, craphole Gorda there was a gas station. Now, remember this was 2000. Gas was still about $1.00/gallon here in Texas and maybe a little more in California. But in Gordo it was $3.00/gallon.

There are a number of reasons the price was(is) so high there. It's remote. It has to generate it's own electricity. But, basically, it's the only station for miles, so suck it.

And, now, every time the price of gas goes up around the country, someone has to run a story saying basically "Gas already $5/gallon seen in California." But it's always this same craphole gas station.

So, media dipshits, cut it out. You've been exposed for the fear mongers you are.



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