Ok, I laughed. +1

Because a long haul trucker only has so much to spend, and if he has to spend it all on gas, he has none left to spend on hookers.

Won't somebody think of the hookers.

I propose we put a bounty on commodities traders.
For every dead speculator you bring in, you get a $10 gas card.
Any takers?

Guess I'll have to go and help these poor ladies out...

Nice HL there, subs.

/+1 intarweb

eqtworld:Don't they charge over 500 bucks for a lay?

Why would spending an extra $10 on gas stop someone who is about to spend that kind of cash from driving out there?

Newsflash: People who think with their dicks often make poor economic decisions!

Give till it hurts.

geetus:Nice HL there, subs.

Thanks.


/smitty

hehehehe.

+1 money shot for subby That's right subby, you get down there and do what I told you.

The Tony Danzas:eqtworld:Don't they charge over 500 bucks for a lay?

Why would spending an extra $10 on gas stop someone who is about to spend that kind of cash from driving out there?

Newsflash: People who Men think with their dicks! often make poor economic decisions

FTFY

FTFA: Sue's Fantasy Club in Elko doesn't need to extend any promotions because it doesn't rely on truckers, said the brothel's manager, who would identify herself only as Victoria.

Sounds like Victoria's got a secret.

Danger Avoid Death:Newsflash: People who Men think with their dicks! often make poor economic decisions

FTFY

Can't argue with that.

I like how the article starts off calling them brothels and later swiches to whorehouses.

shirtsbyeric:I like how the article starts off calling them brothels and later swiches to whorehouses.

I do as well.

Day_Old_Dutchie:I propose we put a bounty on commodities traders.
For every dead speculator you bring in, you get a $10 gas card.
Any takers?

I say we offer more like $1000 apiece, but I think you have the right idea.

More regulation of commodities trading is necessary, as well as substantial investment in alternative sources. And while we're at it, we need to round up the libertarians too, because they are the ones who are opposing that we actually do something that is better for everyone. They want their 'glorious' market to take care of everything, because it relies on greed. Greed will ensure no one does anything about high fuel prices or climate change because who can make a profit from something that everyone benefits from even if they don't pay? Fark libertarians and their greed and profits. We need more regulation, not less, because its obvious people are too self destructive when left to their own devices. And for you libertarian idiots, their self destructiveness (i.e. climate change) affects you, too. So stop biatching about who is going to benefit from it, who is going pay for it and who is going to profit from it. Because if we don't come up with a solution, we are all going to be equally farked.

/End threadjack, sorry about that
//I just vehemently despise libertarians and felt like biatching on the internet about it
///At least I'm honest about it

And I'll add this preemptively to ward off any impending arguments from offended libertarians:


/Not that I think it will actually ward them off
//But I'm not going to argue about it

Petroleum use is down, and us forward thinkers are reducing our need for it in the future. This is a bubble, where market forces have driven the price waaaaay above the nominal cost of production and distribution.

The speculators will lose their shirts, much like the mortgage companies did when the housing bubble popped. Course the CEOs and CFOs make great money when the companies 'lose their shirts'... C'est la vie.

Regulation, government speak, for securely closing, locking, and guarding the barn door, now that the horses are all running about free.

thelordofcheese:shirtsbyeric:I like how the article starts off calling them brothels and later swiches to whorehouses.

I do as well.

I think the writer's liquid lunch kicked in by the sixth paragraph.

eqtworld:Don't they charge over 500 bucks for a lay?

$200 - $300 for average.

james_bong:And I'll add this preemptively to ward off any impending arguments from offended libertarians:

I was actually thinking about engaging you in some constructive and interesting discourse about economics, and maybe you woulda learned something and maybe I woulda learned something, but I guess I'll just skip it now.

The most surreal experience I've ever had was returning to Vegas after 20 some-odd years and having a 2-for-1 lapdance coupon shoved into my hand by an old Filipino women.

Mentat:The most surreal experience I've ever had was returning to Vegas after 20 some-odd years and having a 2-for-1 lapdance coupon shoved into my hand by an old Filipino women.


A way to have some extra amusement in Vegas:

Collect some of those coupons/flyers while you walk down the street. On the next block, slap them in your had and try to hand them to the next illegal immgrant you see handing them out.

/One of my friends did that.
//IIRC, the guy called him a "pinche gringo".
///Good times.

It sounds like "pain instead of the pump" as much as "pain at the pump," actually.

it isn't the $20 of gas to get to the brothel that is stopping the truckers. Truckers have watched their profits from a run go from $1500 to $400, or similar. They don't have the spare cash to be seeing hookers, and making their truck payments and paying their rent.

emohess:Regulation, government speak, for securely closing, locking, and guarding the barn door, now that the horses are all running about free


Regulations being too little too late is exactly what lobbyists pay for.

the first 100 customers who arrive with government stimulus checks receive twice the services for the same regular price.

That's what I call package stimulus!

$200 for 45 minutes! Good God Almighty, those guys are getting farked.

/Wait...

My brother's GF has a motto that serves many people well, and appears to be true in many, many situations. Here it is:

"Girls are crazy, boys are dumb."


It's not always true, but most of the time it's close enough.

You ought to see what they're charging for Ethyl.

/Lawn..off

highwayrun:My brother's GF has a motto that serves many people well, and appears to be true in many, many situations. Here it is:

"Girls are crazy, boys are dumb."


It's not always true, but most of the time it's close enough.

Well in all honesty, were all really one or the other anyway.

So the economy that makes the amount of business shrink for prostitutes in Nevada is the same economy that also entices many many new entrants into the horizontal folk dancing business...

///Hmmm...

// Just like in real estate where more and more people are being forced out of purchasing houses and into competing for a rapidly shrinking rental market. The competition is getting fiercer, folks...

// More and more people chasing after less and less resources is never a pretty look, no matter what sector of the economy, is it?

Retards, your hands are free. Just get some lotion if you have rough hands.

nevada law, $250 per half hour, $400 per hour.

the house makes most of it's money selling drinks, particularly when someone buys a couple of hours with a lady and does a "champange party" with $100-$200 bottles of champange markup.

Unapproves

StarshipPooper:Retards, your hands are free. Just get some lotion if you have rough hands.

If your hand feels like a who-nanny-nanny, I'd like to shake your hand.