11.031 Gallons of Unleaded Gasoline from Citgo
Item Purchased: 11.031 Gallons of Unleaded Gasoline from Citgo
Location Purchased: Citgo / 1004 S. Des Plaines / Chicago, IL
Price: $38.60 w/tax
Review: Those of you who read Consumatron.com regularly know that I do not own a car or drive on a regular basis. Over the last week, however, I borrowed my girlfriend’s car (which usually just sits parked on the street outside of her apartment since she, like me, is an avid bicyclist) to run some errands. I only saw it fit to fill up her gas tank for her.
Despite hearing drivers and inconsiderate Hummer owners (a class all their own) around Chicago complain about high gas prices every day, I’m still not sure they are high enough. If it were up to me, I’d make gas prices in urban areas close to $10/gallon with discounts for people who prove that they need personal motorized vehicles over public transportation or alternative methods of getting around. It would reduce pollution, clear streets, and the health of an average citizen would increase in hours. Smaller, neighborhood businesses would thrive and communities would exist outside of Myspace. (Not to mention electric cars getting back into the showrooms). I would still drive when I needed to, but really… I don’t need to that often. If you live in a large city, you don’t either… trust me.
While filling up my girlfriend’s gas tank (zing!), I subconsciously, by convenience, chose to support Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelen government, who owns Citgo. It could be worse. Despite the anti-AmericanEconomicPolicy stance that Chavez holds, he’s a pretty decent guy. He offered aid for Katrina victims and delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities and has offered our government oil at prices a third cheaper than they are currently going for on the world market only to be turned down. He just refuses to reinvest in America like Saudi Arabia does… By buying bits and pieces of America’s assets. All Chavez wants to do is help out his country, not buy ours.
So, I guess, if you absolutely have to buy one of the world’s biggest pollutants and foreign policy leveraging tools, I recommend buying from Citgo. Lesser of two evils and all that. But you really should be riding a bike, bus or train.
Rating: 3 / 5
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