The price is most likely, these Ole Crone’s bones think, created with covert motives and with many players. This is what the increases can do: 1. Provide fast quick funds for the oil and cooperating energies to get a lot of bucks fast to copy cat any entrapreneurs developing new energy means, —buy them out or buy the legislators out to set in regulations that will stop entrapreneurs in their tracks. Do we think oil is gonna sit there and close up and lose all that black gold? Nope. 2. States and Fed. government are hauling it in as to the increase in taxes they receive for the increase in price. Everybody’s overspent. But where, hum?, —see it in your roads, bridges, transporation systems, medical, pension, etc.? The oil/energy co. with the help of legislation and unethical legislating are takin’ out U.S.A.ans. And folk better get their minds wrapped around this idea. We have gone from the wild natural U.S.A.ans and self reliant to caged into our toys and behavior managed by a variety of corporate and pharmaceutical addictive fixatives, —and, so it seems, lost the will to break out and be free. Principal alone should cause everyone to call in sick and stay home. Two or three days should do it. Issues relating to this: We should not allow ‘needs’ economy to be for profit industry period. Let the free market and capitalism be for the ‘wants’ economy and let it run without govt. interference. If it ain’t good we won’t buy it ‘cause we don’t need it! ‘Needs’ economy is the natural resources the Godness gave us all to eat, drink, shelter, medicate, heat, cool, and clothe ourselves . They should not be up for profit. There should, I think, be a global grid as to natural tesources and they are shared. We have allowed words like soccialism and communism scare us. Do you think, now in hindsite, this was intended for that top G-8 1 percent to take the globes natural resources since the tea and spices in India? Our social foundation, that which allows humans to fill basic life giving needs, should be a socialistic model. The things we want should be the capitalistic model. When a weak social foundation is laid, there can be no ethical and strong free market system. Thinking?

I was sitting here this morning blogging about this very subject. How do we make others aware of their collective power and then rally them into action? This situation is keeping me awake at night. Who is responsible? Those that can change it… you and I and our neighbors who shrug their shoulders and get in their car and drive to the movies where they will spend $75.00/night for a movie and treats for four people or maybe they are going to the local professional sports team competition and paying $100/ticket. Hmmm… yet they cannot afford health insurance? Americans have their priorities screwed up. Yes, we need entertainment but I am a firm believer in the fact that the best things in life are free… a moonlit walk, an afternoon by the river reading a book… We need alternative, renewable energy research and investment. When I think of the money spent on mud slinging in these current election commercials and how that could be spent on researching alternate fuels, it makes me turn off the television. Okay… I am off my soapbox now. Heading out for a walk.

Although both OPEC and the oil companies are reaping obscene profits, WE are to blame for this — or, at least, those of us who lived through the 1970s and forgot all about them. We’ve had 30 years to fix this problem, and we’re going backwards. My 1986 Nissan got more mileage in the city than most cars now get on the highway. We brought this on ourselves, by choosing vehicles that get low mileage, and by electing those in the pockets of the oil companies. Congress now wants to rip up Alaska for oil — oil’s not the answer, it’s the problem. Why can Toyota make a hybrid with astounding mileage, and we can’t? Why hasn’t Congress mandated higher mileage figures? We can spend billions for a mistake war, but can’t solve our own problems. Who elected these clowns, anyway? (Sorry — this question hits a nerve.)

I really love the adds for Toyota—green car my fanny.