Instead of wasting time and resources investigating "price gouging," our local governments could provide us with overnight relief by repealing gas taxes. Government gets a bigger share of the swag from sales of gas than the oil companies do!
I paid about the same today. The saving grace was that it was a full service station that pumped the gas for me. I also made the attendant tell me something pleasant so I would drive away with positive thoughts instead of being annoyed by the $50.
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
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Instead of wasting time and resources investigating "price gouging," our local governments could provide us with overnight relief by repealing gas taxes. Government gets a bigger share of the swag from sales of gas than the oil companies do!
REPEAL GAS TAXES NOW!!!
I know, horrifying isn't it? Wait til you see the prices this summer!
Yeah. Try filling up three tanks and paying for four kids in Catholic schools. On a teacher's income. Oy.
I'll see your fifty and raise you....
:-)
I paid about the same today. The saving grace was that it was a full service station that pumped the gas for me. I also made the attendant tell me something pleasant so I would drive away with positive thoughts instead of being annoyed by the $50.
So, Wilbur,where is Mr. Ed when you need him?
Fifty dollars? Whoa, Nellie! Buy a horse!
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