Someone spoke yesterday on WFHB about ways to cut cost of gas by getting better mileage. Among other points, the commentator stressed not tailgating, which is a good point. You save gas by not braking as much and by accelerating more slowly. But then he said approximately this: The most expensive gas you’ll ever purchase is the gas already in your tank if you are involved in an accident. It could cost thousands of dollars per gallon. Or even a life.
Really?
Really?
No. That gas cost just as much as it did at the station. That’s a cheap fallacious maneuver. You can’t just spread the cost of an accident over the cost of gas. Cheap cheap cheap. The tank of gas has nothing to do with the accident. Sometimes, I hate people’s “clever” distortion of details to make a stupid point.
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My brother asked me where the
human humanE society in Columbia is. I started to give him Bloomington directions. Good sign. I even needed a generous pause before remembering how to get to the Columbia pound. He and Sarah are thinking of getting a cat. They need an animal, and at their point in life--the next few years will still be renting--it's just easier to have a cat.
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