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I hope I'm not glazed over, Billy. But here goes...
(Oh, first let me congratulate all for keeping this discussion civil. Good guys all here at HC. Some of the other boards I read are wall-to-wall flames over this topic. You folks are the best.)
Not to put words in Fab's mouth, but the way I read his "cake" post was this: We all make our choices, but having made them, we ought to suck it up and live with the inevitable results of those choices.
Neither Fab's nor Madman's choices are good - or bad. They just are. I'd guess that those choices were made because each of them thought them the best solution. Maybe they were then, and maybe they still are the best. Or maybe not. Nobody knows what the next five minutes will bring us.
But I can promise that whatever happens, it probably wasn't expected!
The choices we make every day are a crap shoot. Maybe that SUV saved your life on a snowy road, and you don't even know it. Maybe that short commute did the same. On the other hand, people die every day because of choices they made. Maybe we just wanted five minutes more sleep, and that put us a tad late, and so we run that long yellow light, and... You get the idea.
Back to the point of the thread (at last LOL!)...
There's no point bitching about the price of gas. It is what it is. You can pay it (that's one decision) or not (and that's another) but we all need to abide by the results of the choice. Nothing you can do as an individual will change it. Nothing, that is, unless you single-handedly build your own refinery (and lotsa luck with THAT decision, the envirowhackos and laws being what they are).
But if you do build it, don't whine about how expensive it is to run the thing, and how you can't break even unless you raise the prices. It was your choice!
Thanks again for the calm and rational talk, guys. If we get together, the beer's on me.
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