Oil Price Fixulus! (and a wave of the wand...PRESTO!)

Okay, so now one needs to but glance at the headlines anywhere, at least in America, and notice that we are currently paying the 2nd highest gas prices (on average) in the history of the automobile. I guess for most Americans that's not something to be concerned about: "It's only the second highest? Oh, okay. Had me worried there for a moment, you did."
At this moment I am not sure of the price to the penny, but it's still hovering above the $3.00 mark. And that's only if you want the low-ball mixture, which I am privately convinced is blended with iron filings and the sweat of Dick Cheney, because god knows I don't get the mileage I used to even a couple of months ago!
Now I should point out that I've never been the sort that really cares too much about how gas prices affect me personally, from a purely financial standpoint. A few more pennies means another dollar+ per tank, and since I don't drive an obscene amount of miles every day (and I don't have a 6500 lb SUV), it affects my bank account no more than the change I lose in the washing machine.
Except of course over a period of time.
Gas prices have without doubt lapped the rise of other expediture scales in this country, like minimum wage, for example. In the last four years gas prices have doubled, while minimum wage has increased by about 8 or 9 percent, if that. And this was the administration that promised, while campaigning during Clinton's final year (still a somewhat flush economy then), that "Help Was On The Way!", in reference to the American economy. What they neglected to mention was that help was only on the way for the wealthiest Americans, most of whom were facing sharply declining profits in the energy sectors of their portfolios.

You really have to just stop all the bullshit, and shut up all of those implanted voices from CNN's talking heads and the moronic lectern speeches by ultra-partisan stooges, and look at the truth that is so simple and clear that the implications are staggering:

Gas prices have doubled in the last few years, certainly since Bush has been in power. Gas prices always rocket upwards where there is trouble (more than usual) in the Middle East. George Bush and his administration is currently fighting two wars of dubious invention in the region wars that seem to drag on without end, and the administration itself will not even predict an end to them.

The George Bush administration is connected intravenously to the oil & gas industry:

• George Bush (and his family before him) : Oil man for nearly all of his adult life that he wasn't ducking service in the Texas Air National Guard.
  
• Dick Cheney: Oil man, natural gas, Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown & Root (deeply wired into the energy sector).
• Condeleeza Rice: Formerly on the Board of Directors at Chevron.
• Donald Rumsfeld: Strongly connected to Bechtel, which has more connections to oil & gas even that Halliburton!
• ...and just for icing on top, let's remember that they selected Kharzai as President of Afghanistan (yes, they selected him, the process was as democractic as some of the tinhorn dictatorships we've installed in Central America), and he used to be a big shot with Unocal, one of the largest of all the energy bullies.
• Bush and most of the others are also heavily involved & invested in the Carlysle Group, an absolute monster corporate presence which, with Halliburton and few other conglomerates, are earning billions in profits on no-bid contracts to "rebuild" the devastation we have wrought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  

The list goes on and on, but I think we can agree "point made". Let's also recall, because heaven knows the "news" agencies won't bring it up again, that Bush and his coterie are so deeply in bed with the Saudi Arabian royal family (who control one of the world's largest oil reserves) that:

• Bush hurried many of his Saudi friends out of America on 9/11, on private planes, even when every other single plane in America was grounded (including planes that were needed to carry organs for life-or-death transplants, congressmen couldn't get back to Washington, and millions of travelers languished in airports far from home, sleeping on benches or maxing out their credit cards staying at the Airport Marriott).
  
• A Saudi Prince invested millions into a company partly run by Mr. Bush, which kept it from going under. The decision was, according to contemporaries in the business, one of the worst financial choices in the history of the oil business, and the Prince did in fact lose all those millions and more. But that didn't matter to the Saudi, because he was buying political influence, not oil. They had plenty of that already.
  

So you see, it's not any kind of a leap to the truth that all of this is engineered, at least a general sort of way. That is, if your friend is killed while crossing the street, it's not your fault...unless you've been constantly hinting that your friend spend more and more time running in traffic. And giving orders for your driver to be speeding down that road at precisely the right time.

The price increases are gradual, however. Although we carp about it, we don't really get upset, but we would if we actually thought about how fast the prices have gone up. So remember, right now, how much you're paying for gas. Just make an average, say about $2.79 per gallon, which is on the low side. Now, in a year's time, compare that price to the 2007 price. If this administration has its way as it has for over six years, then I can practically guarantee that the cost will be at least $.75 more per gallon. We will be paying nearly four dollars a gallon by this time next year. Wanna bet? Hell, it's gonna go up no matter what...as long as we're stirring up trouble over in that unhappy wilderness we've created. As long as our "leaders" are making profits from it.

But, our soldiers are over there fighting (and dying) for "Freedom" and the safety of Americans at home and abroad...right?