" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
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Regardless, I do not agree with or want folks to feel better about the way
the oil companies are raping us. I have posted facts supporting that
position, including posting of the billion dollar profits of Exxon and the
million dollar payoff given to the retiring CEO of the same company.


As much as I'd like to blame bush, aren't these oil prices less related to
bush tactics and more related to increasing world demand and static or
decreasing world supplies.

My gripe is with our consecutive administrations and the consecutive
generations of voters which have failed to prepare for this very energy
challenge that we all know existed. With open global markets and an absence
of product to sell to the world (our major export is our consumerism), we
find ourselves crying about the price of gas because our personal economies
are overwhelmed by our dependence on gas. In my lifetime, the oil crisis of
the '70's should have been our wakeup call. And, finally, my personal fear
that we are at the mercy of other countries for our energy needs is what
will be a major factor in the fall of the US Empire.

Then, there's my personal conspiracy theory to add to the mix: the oil
industry is manipulating supplies and prices to force us to allow the
devastation of the continental shelf and arctic tundra for US oil profits.
Again, a failure to make a break from our dependence on non-sustainable oil
supplies for our countries energy needs.