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Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2008] THE CAR COSTS $4.8 MILLIONAND IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT, YOU HAVE TO PAY $1000.IT BELONGS TO PRINCE AL WALEED FROM SAUDI ARABIA.Remember this when gasoline hits $5.00 a gallon.You paid for this one.Origins: Whenever gasoline prices rise significantly, we see an increase in e-mailed photographs purportedly documenting the extravagances of Middle Eastern sheiks flush with petro-dollars and nothing better to spend them on than pointless opulence. Usually, though, the extent of the lavishness depicted in the photographs is greatly exaggerated (as in the earlier Silver Audi example), and these pictures of a Diamond Mercedes are another case in point. Garson USA produces a line of luxury automotive products, including crystal highlight accessories for Mercedes-Benz automobiles and other luxury cars. As explained on the opening page of Garson's U.S. web site, the automobile pictured above is not a Saudi prince's diamond-encrusted Mercedes worth $4.8 million (the cost of the diamonds needed to fully cover a car of that size would be much more than $4.8 million) but rather a crystal-encrusted (en)
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