BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE

These presidential candidates who were running for president reminded me a lot of my car mechanic who couldn’t repair my brakes, so he made my car horn louder.  The truth was the oil situation could not be fixed in Washington.  For all this attention, 16% of our oil comes from the Persian Gulf—AND 50% from the western hemisphere.

 

Even if America was energy independent, the cost of oil was not coming down.  Off-shore oil was not going to going into some kind of American oil reserve, if approved.  Off-shore oil drilling was solely an issue of profit and loss for oil companies.  Stock companies did not pander to nationalistic issuues except to lobby politicians.  And no one was suggesting that an oil company here be nationalized. 

 

The cost of a barrel of oil was not so much an issue to whom the Arabs were selling their oil.  The discussion about oil should be on the supply of autos, of the additional 330 million cars in the world compared to 15 years ago, with growing economies that were booming when ours was not.  With a world population that was increasing, the demand was bound to increase.

 

In some part of the world this summer, there were food riots over the increased cost of food.  In the developed world the vocal riots were over the price of gasoline. 

 

Life was all about appetites.  Oil was the drink for our cars.  And oil was gonna be a lot like health care in the 21st Century, available for those who could afford it. 

 

 

 

 

 

Americans Don’t Like Being Lied to by People Who Fix Their Cars

Security:  the rich wanted to secure in their homes and in their home lands.  Whether it was revolutions in Russia in 1906 or in 1916, or in Cuba in the late 1950s, it was all about the conflict between the rich and the poor.  That was what politics was really about.  It was about business and money, and business was mean.  It was about money to keep the machines of politics running.  It was about war and there was money to be made in war. It was about campaign 2008.  And it was about the people who wrote about it, uncovering the truth. 

Conflict:  there potential for revolution in Latin America was all about poverty.  We were not doing a good job sharing the bounty.  

 

Conflict:  women who are a bit more slutty took umbrage against those who support virginity, were against judging others. That was the conflict in the ERA world.  So was the world problem best divided by two, by the rich and the poor, those who would have kids and those who would not?  Or was it all centered around cars? 

 

 

The worldwide population explosion of cars had grown in 15 yeasr to  330 million more cars than there had been, to a number around 880 million.  And they all used oil sold by the liter or the gallon.  But why did the price act like a helium balloon released suddenly in 2007 and still alive in the air, barely visible.

Americans don’t like being lied to by people who fix their cars, or by those who were involved in what energized their internal combustion engines.  But was it the law of supply and demand that was creating the New World Disorder?