From the Disney-owned Web site that brought you concerns that college co-eds were foregoing textbooks to pay for birth control comes the latest tale of high gas price-induced economic woes.
"Nevada Brothels Hit Hard by Gas Prices," ABCNews.com trumpets in a teaser headline in the top headlines slideshow on its front page. The editors showed a bit more leg in the photo caption: "Owners fight back: free $50 gas cards for high-spending customers."
Here's some of the tale of woe from the article itself:
As the Silver State's fuel prices hit all-time highs, Nevada's brothel employees find it harder to make a living these days, leaving some people wondering whether they should stay in the business.
At the Stardust Ranch in eastern Nevada, bartender Cindy Howe says they're "down to only two girls. They don't want to come here because business is down."
The brothel is about to change hands after soaring gas prices affected the number of customers willing to drive out to Ely. Now its owners are forced to sell.
What's next? Stories about cutbacks in the prostitution industry leaving hundreds of brothel piano players out of work?
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Breaking: NV Brothel Owners
June 23, 2008 - 11:53 ET by SickofLibsBreaking: NV Brothel Owners Unite in New Promotion offering fuel coupons: 'Gas For A**'
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June 23, 2008 - 11:54 ET by Prester JohnOops
→ Save the brothels
June 23, 2008 - 12:07 ET by Cool ArrowIs their business really "going down"?
I'm shocked and appalled?
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Which translates to some new WINNERS...
June 23, 2008 - 12:11 ET by sarcasmoIE that variety of prostitute (let's call 'em the Elliot Spitzer brand) which does NOT tend to pay millions of dollars in taxes like the girls in Nevada. If you somehow believe that high gas prices will affect the overall long-term future of the World's Oldest Profession in any way, I've got some south Florida real estate for sale, cheap, along with a nice bridge in Brooklyn, NYC. And this ongoing control-freak failure is, if anything, even more apparent than the failure of the tax & spend drugwar. Hell, even the richest illegal drug dealers don't dare to run ads all over sites like Craigslist.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Let's weep for....
June 27, 2008 - 07:54 ET by ForeverOnTheRightthe wicked and the wayward. …Not. Next article, “Drug smugglers hit hard by higher gas prices.” Why does ABC have simpathy for a brothel? Is it just a hook to get us to read an article on the price of gas? Or are they corrupt enough to have sympathy for brothels? I think it's both, they are corrupt and want to hook us unto reading the article for the sake or the greenback. Pimps is what they are, making money off the backs of whores.
Forced to sell?
June 23, 2008 - 12:34 ET by BarkerWhat, they can't drill their way out of it?
No Barker
June 23, 2008 - 12:41 ET by Cool ArrowYou don't drop 15,000 feet of sucker rod down a dry hole.
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Pubic Transportation
June 23, 2008 - 16:50 ET by P.J. GladnickThey need to provide public transportation to those brothels. Or should it be pubic transportation?
Who'd wanna drive all the
June 23, 2008 - 21:09 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveWho'd wanna drive all the way out to Ely even when gas is cheap? It is one of the few places in the United States that is truly in the middle of nowhere! It's further away from Las Vegas than Area 51 is. I drove through Ely once...once on my way from Vegas to Elko. That was without a doubt, the longest drive I have ever been on. Not the longest time or distance-wise, but the combination of the distance and absolutely nothing to see or do all along the way (with the exception of Ely's brothel apparently).
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942
→ brothel piano players
June 23, 2008 - 21:17 ET by Cool ArrowKen, it's funny you should say that, but a once popular bumper sticker here in West Texas was
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an important story for ABC
June 23, 2008 - 21:29 ET by needleThis is apparently an important story for ABC. We should all be impressed at how thoroughly they researched these facts. Presumably this matter will require much more investigation. After all the welfare of prostitutes is much more important than the war against terrorism.
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
With gas so high---
June 24, 2008 - 13:06 ET by misterbillWhy go there????
With gas so high---I feel I am already getting sc---ed just driving.