There is no “one” fix for the problem and there are many things that help to deal with this situation however it’s becoming VERY CLEAR that there are more people in corporations and government that seem to be lying to use and the world.
You hear the supply and demand comment. Then when they tell you that the nation is consuming less oil products you would think that with the demand down the price would come down. Didn’t happen.
They tell you that we have peek oil and that there is little left for the future so the price must go up. Yet you don’t see the government reduce the national speed limits to 55 in an effort to help conserve gas consumption on the highways. (They did this back in the 70’s – remember) to help when fuel was low in quantities. They also rationed gas at the pumps so you were forced to buy at 10 gal instead of filling up. They allowed cars to buy on an even or odd day based on their license plate number. You don’t see the government enacting any conservation methods! Why?
Automotive industry and the oil industry surely had intelligent knowledgeable management people working for them with a high quality of skill in knowing just where the markets, products, and needs of the consumers were going. However they continued to produce more inefficient gas consuming vehicles getting poor mileage over the years. This government administration when they took office even provided consumer incentives to buy large gas guzzling SUVs and trucks. Remember they offered tax breaks on buying those huge HUMMERS and Cadillac Escalades several years ago just after this administration took office. Now that was real helpful!
Then the oil industries want to drill offshore however the government has already provided something in the millions of acres for oil drilling and they haven’t drilled anything in those areas. The demarcates say drill in those areas first the republicans cry that they want to drill in water offshore. Who are you going to believe? There isn’t any truth coming from the government or the oil industry.
Alternative renewable free energy seems to be something that one party doesn’t want. Why? Is it because the oil industry will lose some money coming in, or the coal industry fears that they won’t be in demand as much?
Personally I am tired of corporations and government lies (both parties) taking money and kickbacks from the lobbyists of big business. This is a time in history that the middle and lower income poor class feels pain, and there isn’t anything being done to help them. Yeah ,,, if I had stock in Exxon I’d be happy my stock was up. However I’d be spending the profits of the stock back to them at the pump.
Remember Enron and the power outages a several years ago in California? Remember that Enron “controlled” the energy blackouts and manipulated the power to drive the cost of electricity UP. People lost their small business because they couldn’t keep the doors open due to the high costs of electricity and the blackouts in their area. Damn those who worked for Enron who knew these things were going on. Enron lies then are no different then the oil industry lies today.
Oh,,, and the speculators buying oil years before it’s pumped to help drive the prices even higher. Yeah,,,, these are speculators who want to profit at a time when the nation and the people can’t afford their tactics
The economy is in the toilet because of the government mismanaged issues in the past seven years causing the dollar to fall around the world. The value of a dollar dropping has lead to the euro being the currency of choice by the oil producing nations so you now spend more of your dollars to buy a barrel of oil. This should require a thank you to those in this administration who helped to reduce the value of a U.S. dollar.
Who are the real terrorists? We are fighting a man to man conventional war in Iraq, when the real war is that of the economic condition of this nation caused by those continue to push for higher fuel costs, devalue the American dollar, and turn the free world upside down. The real terrorists are those who chip away at this nation dollar by dollar destroying everything your grandparents, parents and you have worked so hard to build, those are who we should be fighting but while the Halliburton, HDR, Blackwater and others profiteering from a conventional war ~ things will not change.
People have lost their jobs, their homes, and their savings because of those things mentioned above. And many of these people have lost through no fault of their own, they are victims of this nations failures both government and corporations. When you look for the definition of Fascists Governments you’ll see first mentioned corporate controlled government. Has this nation become a Fascists one?
Some of you may remember when Jimmy Carter was in office and he had an energy program that was being put into place. He even had solar panels on the roof of the White House to start alternative energy at the government level. That was back in the 1980’s if my memory is correct. What happened? Ronal Reagan came into office and had them removed, discontinued the energy program. Then came George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Four presidents since Jimmy Carter ~ three republicans and one democratic and nothing had been done to improve the nation and it’s need for energy. Shame on all of them for the energy failures of the nation, shame on the CEO’s of the automotive industries for their failure to produce vehicles that were efficient, shame on the oil industries CEOs for their failures to produce safe affective refineries over the years and failures to drill in the millions of acres the government provided them with.
It all comes down to “greed” at those levels of management and government officials. They lied to you and I over the years and now you and I are paying for their greed and ineffectiveness to lead a corporation or the nation.
Sorry ,,,, I’m off my soapbox now, but I’m angry and mad as hell at them.
So what can you and I do personally to help with the energy problem ~ “stop listening to them!”
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