Reply #4: More diversion from reality... [View All]

[Baby Snooks]

This is similar to the "price of oil is going up because of the devalued dollar" and it of course serves the Republicrats well. Blame the Democrats. Stop taxing the oil companies so much and they will drill for more oil. There's plenty of oil. The damn Democrats just don't want us to have it. They block everything. The Democrats and those damn environmentalists! And so it goes. And goes. And goes.

Reality is the major reserves are being depleted. Add Indonesia to the list of "net importers" along with Great Britain, Mexico, and of course the good old United States. We have no oil, really, so everyone else's oil is of course "ours" and those damn communists and Islamic fundamentalists and of course the Nigerians are all just a bunch of crooks trying to steal our oil from us. And so it goes. And goes. And goes.

The only truth in the statement that lack of investment is the cause of a decline in producing reserves is that the major oil companies and some of the "middlemen" who used to be the actual independents are finding it more and more expensive to explore and then put fields into production. But we must have oil. And so we will see $150 a barrel oil soon. Then $200. Then $250. That is probably the point at which our economy will simply collapse. No one will be able to afford gas, electricity or even groceries. Think it won't happen? Spend some time in the grocery store and really look at the prices that keep going up every month as the price of diesel goes up.

The big battle cry now is the Democrats and other assorted varmints who are enemies of the American people have blocked the construction of new refineries. No one has blocked any such thing. The major oil companies in particular are hardly going to invest billions of dollars in new refineries that may be sitting idle in 15-25 years because there is no longer the demand for oil because of the price per barrel and the price per gallon.

We are a very stupid people because we are a very selfish people. Even alternative energy in this country is developed only when it guarantees a good return. Profit is all. Welcome to the oligarchy.

The only country that had the foresight to accept the inevitable is Brazil. Which will get rich off its export of oil from the new Atlantic fields. They don't need it because 85% of its population fills up with ethanol at the pump instead of gasoline. And eventually, some say within 5 years, 100% of its population will.

Everyone else will be looking at $10 a gallon gas, then $15 a gallon gas, then $20 a gallon gas.

It is not just gasoline. It is electricity. We are completely oil dependent in this country. And this summer is going to bring a harsh reality to even the "middle-class" who probably will spend a long, hot summer with hand fans because they can't afford to run the air-conditioning.

And Nancy Pelosi will just shrug her shoulders and wink at George W Bush and tell everyone to blame the Republicans. At this point our Congress is no longer Democrats and Republicans. They are basically all Republicrats. Supporting the oligarchy that will be the legacy of the Bushes and the cause of the collapse of the American empire. The people may be Democrats or Republicans but their politicians are not.

She will be sitting there listening to him fiddle during the summer while the fire raging in Rome begins to consume Rome finally.