Ouch! Perfect example of why kids grow up to be on Jerry Springer!
posted by Steve at 9:53 AM
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Monday, April 17, 2006
Happy thoughts on oil
The following is a responce to a friend's recent e-mail in regards to Phillip Hollsworth's suposed proposel to boycott EXXON and MOBIL in hopes to have the oil giants reduce their prices. To read the e-mail that spawned simpleton thoughts from my grey matter straight to this blog, go here. Do you agree or no? Let me know...
Happy thoughts on oil
I want to join the Resistance! I want to cripple our dependence on oil just like the next guy. I want to stick it to the proverbial corporate fat-man with his wars and ridiculous high consumer prices (especially oil), but alas, I don't think this plan will work. This site says it best when it says:
"A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison."
Unfortunately big business wins again and screws the middleman. It sucks and it's totally disheartening. Especially when you see the earnings for the gas companies the last few years and that fat evil creeps like Lee Raymond (ex-chairman of Exxon/Mobil) are retiring with enough money to wipe out world hunger for weeks! It’s also so sad that the deaths of thousands of people the last two years is a direct result of these record profits. Karma, anyone?
The sad reality is that big business will always win because they have the money to make us trust them and money is all that seems to matters in this system. But by "winning" I mean that big business will have all the earthly money and power to destroy all of our resources and drive us to Armageddon. Sorry, I'm not that optimistic about big business.
I don’t know the answers here except to press our government for more research dollars for this new ethanol from corn/switch grass idea, put pressure on the car manufactures to sell affordable cars not dependant on oil, take public transportation when at all possible, stop buying these big-ass SUV’s and, of course, BUY LESS GAS!!! This company makes sense on the matter.
Also, since I have you captive…I’m not a political person and I have no hidden political agendas here, but... Let’s acknowledge that the current administration of our government has made untold millions in one industry. The industry is called oil. President Bush called for a 22 percent increase in clean energy research at the Department of Energy (research into solar and wind power, ways to produce ethanol, nuclear power, and cleaner coal) however he also cut spending for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory by $28 million. Thirty to forty of the lab’s employees will be laid off (NPR’s Talk of the Nation March 3rd, 2006). Anyway, I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to understand why more government dollars aren’t spent on researching alternate oil options do you? To be fair to the Bush’s, the problem has existed for years! Clinton could have done more as well. But the bottom line is that Big business has the money and money is our god. Money runs this country and the world. Money could be used for good, but it's almost always used for evil. Why? Because we are fundamentally flawed people. We aren't perfect. We have never been. All though history we have destroyed everything in our path. From neighboring tribes to the ozone layer. Unfortunately, the capitalism and consumption of oil is no different.
The whole thing is sad and hard to comprehend. I hope it is dealt with soon. E-mails like yours help with the dialog, which needs to continue. All I can say is, Thank God Jesus exists, otherwise I might be that guy with a twitch in his eye, buying a used Uzi to “get better gas prices”!
Sorry for the rant. Have a good Monday!
-Optomistic Steve
Happy thoughts on oil
I want to join the Resistance! I want to cripple our dependence on oil just like the next guy. I want to stick it to the proverbial corporate fat-man with his wars and ridiculous high consumer prices (especially oil), but alas, I don't think this plan will work. This site says it best when it says:
"A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison."
Unfortunately big business wins again and screws the middleman. It sucks and it's totally disheartening. Especially when you see the earnings for the gas companies the last few years and that fat evil creeps like Lee Raymond (ex-chairman of Exxon/Mobil) are retiring with enough money to wipe out world hunger for weeks! It’s also so sad that the deaths of thousands of people the last two years is a direct result of these record profits. Karma, anyone?
The sad reality is that big business will always win because they have the money to make us trust them and money is all that seems to matters in this system. But by "winning" I mean that big business will have all the earthly money and power to destroy all of our resources and drive us to Armageddon. Sorry, I'm not that optimistic about big business.
I don’t know the answers here except to press our government for more research dollars for this new ethanol from corn/switch grass idea, put pressure on the car manufactures to sell affordable cars not dependant on oil, take public transportation when at all possible, stop buying these big-ass SUV’s and, of course, BUY LESS GAS!!! This company makes sense on the matter.
Also, since I have you captive…I’m not a political person and I have no hidden political agendas here, but... Let’s acknowledge that the current administration of our government has made untold millions in one industry. The industry is called oil. President Bush called for a 22 percent increase in clean energy research at the Department of Energy (research into solar and wind power, ways to produce ethanol, nuclear power, and cleaner coal) however he also cut spending for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory by $28 million. Thirty to forty of the lab’s employees will be laid off (NPR’s Talk of the Nation March 3rd, 2006). Anyway, I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to understand why more government dollars aren’t spent on researching alternate oil options do you? To be fair to the Bush’s, the problem has existed for years! Clinton could have done more as well. But the bottom line is that Big business has the money and money is our god. Money runs this country and the world. Money could be used for good, but it's almost always used for evil. Why? Because we are fundamentally flawed people. We aren't perfect. We have never been. All though history we have destroyed everything in our path. From neighboring tribes to the ozone layer. Unfortunately, the capitalism and consumption of oil is no different.
The whole thing is sad and hard to comprehend. I hope it is dealt with soon. E-mails like yours help with the dialog, which needs to continue. All I can say is, Thank God Jesus exists, otherwise I might be that guy with a twitch in his eye, buying a used Uzi to “get better gas prices”!
Sorry for the rant. Have a good Monday!
-Optomistic Steve
posted by Steve at 11:16 AM
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