Brian Williams pretends to not be The Man
Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News just now:
This next item is for all those who quietly suffer at the gas pump every day across this country watching those numbers fly by. The scene was the Charles St. Stop and Go in Rockford Illinois. The time was yesterday morning. The price at the pump for medium grade unleaded - three dollars nine cents a gallon. But then, a computer glitch somehow moved the decimal point on the price one place to the left. That turned the three dollar gas into thirty cent gas. The attendant noticed something might be wrong when a huge line formed outside the gas station. The pumps were quickly shut down amid fears that oil company profits might plummet. But for one brief shining moment, we the consumers won. It was like the old days, before you needed to refinance your home to fill your tank.
Okay, I could just tear this to shreds, but let me just put it this way: Brian, the clerks shut it down amid fears that they wouldn't have a paycheck since they'd just wiped out the margin for that gas station. They still have to pay the state the nineteen cents a gallon state tax, and still have to buy the fuel to replace it. No, Brian, they weren't worried about the oil companies, they were worried about their livelihoods.
