An article at Yahoo! Sports blames the slow economy for NASCAR events drawing 100,000 fans instead of 130,000 fans. (I'll give everyone a moment to dry their tears.) The best part is a quote from stock car legend Richard Petty:

“Fuel, that’s the reason,” seven-time Cup champion Richard Petty said last weekend at MIS. To illustrate his point, Petty bent down, picked up a five-gallon fuel container, hoisted it into the air and pointed at it. “No matter whether you have a car or not, the gas prices are hurting you; the diesel prices are hurting you,” Petty said. “Everything (costs) is being passed on. It’s inflating everything by the one thing, which is the fuel. Sure it bothers me, but more on an everyday deal, where they’re doing things like running the food prices up because the fuel prices are up, too.”

Who this 'they' might be -- accomplishing the dastardly task of raising food prices just 'cause gas costs twice as much as it did two years ago -- is left to the imagination. (Maybe the current administration can track them down and surge them?)

The article ends with a note that in the 1970s, during the OPEC embargo, NASCAR shortened some of its races by ten percent, so that the stock cars that only get 4.5 miles per gallon drove around in circles for just 450 miles instead of 500. No word on if 'they' also lowered the ticket prices accordingly.

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