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"We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change. However, our ideal candidate has also cursed out an editor, had spokespeople hang up on them in anger and threatened to resign at least once because some fool wanted to screw around with their perfect lede."

"Three seventy a gallon tonight.  Fill up's going to cost what?  Around fifty-five bucks?  What are you going to do?

Put it on the card, hope you got enough to cover it when the bill comes?

Pay cash?

There goes your night out at the movies.  That or you do a smaller shop at the grocery store, put off paying the phone bill again.

I got it!

Sell the car right now.  Trade it in on a hybrid.  Walk away from the mortgage.  Move to a progressive urban area where there's reliable mass transit.  Find a house or an apartment, someplace with a small carbon footprint, on a high speed rail line.  And maybe it's time to start that new career, go back to school, get a degree in bio-engineering, find a green job close to home, buy a new bike, learn to love to walk everywhere again, cut up that Exxon card at last!

Or, you know, fill the tank halfway and have tuna casserole again tonight.

Stop whining about the price of gas?

Really, Treehugger?  You want to go there?"