Friday, April 25, 2008

EW Letter of the Week

I'd like to believe Les is writing tongue-in-cheek. I don't actually believe it, but I'd like to.

LOOMING BIKE SHORTAGE

Regardless of the price, everybody is happy to be able to buy unlimited supplies of gasoline. In a few years, three or four, there will not be enough of the black goo for everybody in the red, white and blue.

Then rationing and black markets will determine who may acquire gasoline. When that day comes a person will not be able to buy a new or used bicycle for love or gold. All the bicycles will already be bought up by gangs, law enforcement, militias, the super rich and the super wise.

I presently own two bicycles and plan on buying more. I store them in my bomb shelter as a hedge on the weirdest future rolling since Cortez rode his horse into Mexico City. I will be able to barter them for luxury items, passages to the safe zone maybe.

Bicycle stores are reaching critically low inventories due to spot panics starting up around the world. Don't wait, buy now.

Lester Peel, Springfield

And did we know that Zach Vishanoff was an anti-global warming guy (last letter)? Seems strange given that he seems to believe that Nikes contain nanomachines that will eventually breed in your brain.

1 comment:

wobblie said...

The only thing missing from that letter is his ability to barter bikes for sex. That would've completed it for me.

And is it me, or is Zach getting crazier?