Your pain at the pump is palatable, but what ring of the underworld inferno should we consider this?

Well, if the price-gouging has its way and we can’t afford to heat our homes anymore, perhaps it’s the final ring of hell, the one where Satan is stuck upside-down in a lake of ice.

Polaroid by Dash Snow. More of his work here [NSFW], reflecting a gritty (like the crunching of cat litter under your feet) underbelly of anti-consumer youth culture. Spotted at aptbroadcast.

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