# How NOT to respond to high gas prices **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930 "2008-06-05T21:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/1 "2008-06-05T21:21:21Z")
How NOT to respond to high gas prices: [News link](http://www.kcra.com/news/16511037/detail.html) 1. Set fire to two gas stations using fire place logs 2. Set fire to a Starbucks (!?) using a fire place log 3. Go eat at a fast food restaurant with eight of your remaining fire place logs “[S]he woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices. Police said they don’t know why Craig targeted the Starbucks.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/2 "2008-06-05T21:43:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] Police said they don’t know why Craig targeted the Starbucks." [/QUOTE] Perhaps she sees the price/volume of petrol approaching that of cappuccino, and thus has conflated the two. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/3 "2008-06-05T22:52:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] “[S]he woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices. Police said they don’t know why Craig targeted the Starbucks.” [/QUOTE] I’m going to use “She is barking insane” as my working theory. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/4 "2008-06-05T23:00:49Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] “She is barking insane” as my working theory. [/QUOTE] I believe that to be a sound hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/5 "2008-06-06T13:44:05Z")
Well she was setting the fires in the bathrooms and Starbucks is kind of known for having public bathrooms. I wonder if she was going to torch Micky D’s on her way out. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/6 "2008-06-06T13:48:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Police said they don’t know why Craig targeted the Starbucks. They are also concerned that if she tells them why, it may hurt their brains. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-respond-to-high-gas-prices/451930/7 "2008-06-06T14:15:09Z")
[QUOTE=Xema] Perhaps she sees the price/volume of petrol approaching that of cappuccino, and thus has conflated the two. [/QUOTE] Who here hasn’t, at one time or another, wanted to set fire to Starbucks? if only to get the Uber Yuppie ahead of me ordering a Decaffachinno Frappa Chappa Dappa Mulatto with a shot of decaf expresso and Sprinkles to just leave in a hasty way.