GAS SHORTAGE

We have all been effected by the rise in fuel costs. Even those of us who use public transportation. Gas prices have remained, in Austin, at around $3.50 +/- a gallon since roughly November. It has been higher and lower in different regions around the country. Which begs the consumer to ask, or at least i hope it does, WHY ARE WE WASTING GAS ON USELESS SPORTING EVENTS LIKE NASCAR. That's why I propose a BAN on the sport.

I have said it for YEARS, NASCAR is nothing but a trivial waste of time, resources, and money. Now, it has become even worse considering the prices at the pumps for regular everyday people. I have read the arguments and debates from concerned NASCAR fans. They actually up sell the merits of their favorite sport of choice and say that in a season NASCAR uses less gas than a city on a weekly basis. IRRELEVANT, it does not matter what amount or percentage they use less, the point is they are USING. It is STILL a waste of resources. Then there are those who claim that NASCAR drivers use a special fuel made from corn or something like that. BIG DEAL, that's still fuel that the public can be using. Any "SPORT" that uses that much fuel is NONSENSE, no matter how nominal it is compared to a certain cities use. The cities use is filled with people coming and going to work and stuff, being useful members of society. In an economy this bad, we should learn to trim the fat and get rid of things we don't need.

AND, on to my next point. The companies that sponsor these moronic displays of LEFT TURN MADNESS, are on the top of my list. These businesses spend literally billions of dollars on these cars that only make LEFT TURNS. Has anyone looked outside lately. Homelessness, poverty, illiteracy, hungry. These are issues facing our "Great" nation today. Yet instead of using these dollars for useful things, like EDUCATION, these funds are wasted on LEFT TURNS. Why not uses these funds on useful stuff. Cities across the nation are losing vital forms of public services, like firemen, police, and teachers. Its a sad sad state of affairs when a teacher makes less than a driver. Teachers teach our next generation people, those who will lead the way and take care of us when we are old. But as of now, we will all be at the mercy of IDIOTS. That's STUPID... It would be just as profitable for companies to take even a portion of these endorsement dollars and putting them into something we actually NEED.

Now, I know that there are those people out there who will think I am evil and ignorant of the joys of racing. Well ladeedah, and bully on you. I despise the "sport" always have and always will. But, I am not without compromise. Maybe not a full ban, but a half ban or something like that. Where a percentage of the racers are CUT, don't ask me how that will be accomplished, I have no clue. And, a small amount of the endorsements that go to the racers go straight into their local economy for public services vital to OUR SURVIVAL. And the companies who endorse these "people" must give a portion of the proceeds  to some CREDIBLE charity. And YES, i know there are companies out there who already give to charity. That is a good thing, but they could give a little more. And I would do my part as well in possibly buying something directly involved with NASCAR or something like that...who knows..