Gas Rationing In Minnesota?

Posted by derickson on Aug 31st, 2005
2005
Aug 31

I went to fill up my tank last night at a Super America in St. Paul because news reports were telling me that gas prices were going to go through the roof (as if they were not already through the roof). So there I am, pumping gas into the Wrangler at a $2.79/gallon clip and I get to about thirty some-odd bucks and click there’s no more gas coming out of the nozzle. The trigger has no pressure, it’s slack.

You know how sometimes you have to hold the trigger of the gas pump just so to get it to pump without it turning off and how bloody maddening it is because when that happens the gas usually comes out in a tinsy little trickle? I figured that was gonna be the case here. But I had no luck at all. The thing just wouldn’t pump any more gas.

All right. Whatever. I went in and paid and was on my merry if not much poorer way. I looked at the tank and noticed that I’d only gotten three quarters of a tank of gas. I vaguely thought of gas rationing.

Well, I spoke to a colleague today and they had the exact same experience at an SA in Robbinsdale. No jiggering the pump trigger. Nothing. Only three-quarters of a tank of gas.

There’s only one conculsion: Super America Is Rationing Minnesotan’s gas!

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Political Marketing

Posted by derickson on Aug 31st, 2005
2005
Aug 31

I just found this great political marketing story from Corey Anderson’s post over at the City Pages Blotter: The Canadian National Post has a story dated August 23 about Bush’s recent speech in Idaho. The story was unremarkable enough but for the picture that accompanies it:

Bullshit_protector

A Bullshit Protector! I love the ear flap. This is about the cleverest, and most effective political marketing tactic I’ve seen since the Clinton campaign had people dressed in chicken suits follow George Herbert Walker Bush around to highlight the fact he refused to debate Clinton.

Heh.

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