I Told You That They Were Crazy

Iranians...Can't Live With 'Em, Can't live without 'Em


I'm Tempted to go off on another rant just to keep my head from exploding, but my time here at the keyboard is limited as I have a date with a swimming pool, so I'll let you fill in the blanks yourself.

Look at this story about Iran having to STOP IMPORTING GASOLINE and beginning rationing.

Iran will halt gasoline imports from September 23 and start rationing gasoline supplies to motorists because of budget constraints, Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Friday.

Parlimentarians in the OPEC producer approved a budget for the year to March 2007 that cut the amount to be spent on gasoline imports to $2.5 billion from $4 billion.

This meant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's populist government, which draws its support from the poor, was faced with an unappetising choice of hiking petrol prices or rationing, both potential sources of social discontent.

"Next week will be time to decide when we start rationing. Because there is no budget for importing gasoline in the second half of the year, naturally imports will be stopped and gasoline will be supplied by rationing," he said on state television.

WHAT?

Iran, the second biggest producer of crude oil in OPEC, has to IMPORT GASOLINE?

Isn't that like Mexico running out of illegal immigrants or Cuba running out of Cubans or something?

They should rename Iran something else like INSANE, perhaps.

See the advantages a totalitarian dictatorship has when it comes to quality of life, ladies and gentlemen?

Do YOU want to live somewhere like that?

Well, just a few more years. and a few more stupid votes, bouyed by the liberal media, and we here in the good old USA can be there too.