I am getting up from the wrong side of the bed today. I hear a lot of talk from people about gas prices. Gas prices?! I guess it's the idea of "how does this affect me?" when it comes to the news.
I hear people asking why the prices are going up. Then the ownership status, the situation in the Middle East, we need to drill for gas off our coast, and all this garbage spews forth. Accept it. You're being taken for a fool. Exxon will have another most profitable quarter the next time we hear from them, no doubt.
You voted to put a bunch of 'oil men' in charge, enough of you so some friends and the Supreme Court put them over the top and into the White House. The first thing they were planning was how to get into Iraq to get rid of their old buddy, Saddam, so they could stop the generous flow of oil from Iraq. They figured it out. The price of gas has skyrocketed since Inauguration Day of 2000. You've been used; walked all over.
Stop asking for someone to help make the gas prices go down. It won't happen unless you are serious. Stop whining. You still drive humongous cars that suck gas. Supply and demand. You don't seriously think anyone with the power actually wants to make the prices go down do you?
When Americans stop demanding so much oil/gas, we might see prices level off. I don't think they'll go down. Ever. Drive less. Drive an alternative fuel car. Demand slower freeway speed limits from elected officials. Start actually cutting back.
Americans have not been asked to sacrifice a dang thing during the "occupation/war" in the Middle East. Lives have been sacrificed but it may not affect you. In the past we had gas rationing. There were victory gardens. Individuals did what was in their own power to conserve in order to fight to win.
In case you haven't heard yet, the number of troops in
Iraq could double by Christmas. More surges. Yet ANOTHER change in strategy. They're talking about a 'political' solution, not a military solution. Bush says we "gotta fight al qaeda". Al Qaeda was never in Iraq until Saddam was removed from power - by Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfowitz, Perl, et al. neo cons. Although Bush's approval rating is the lowest it has been, people talk of impeachment, and people protest, there is no way that those foxes will leave the hen house as long as they have the power to be in there.
The people that were elected to help bring this thing to an end so our families could come home have decided to save their own tails instead of actually stand up to the war profiteers. They have lost their collective resolve.
So, no one is going to come along with a magic pill to bring down gas prices. It will just keep rising as long as you demand it. Stop demanding.
