* In the News This Week
Those gasoline price signs you see everywhere are like count down clocks to the end of the world as we know it!
In some sense it would be quite like the end of the world if no one puts a brake on these gasoline prices! If it reaches a point where it literally immobilizes people from going about their lives, panic can easily set it, then riot, soon after anarchy!
Let’s face it we are that dependent on gas period!
That is why when you here this crap from Department of Energy’s Steven Chu, about how his department is working on lowering gas prices for the long term by developing alternative energy sources, and that this steady increase in gas price is a good motivator in that direction, I simply want to kick his ass!
When people are hurting already in this tough economic times and here you are calling the increase in gasoline prices as a motivator, as if we the people are not hurting enough?
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for alternative fuel, but we have to engage the issue we have right now or else we wouldn’t even get to that future when all these so called alternative technology can actually be useful and affordable!
We know that technology for these alternative fuel is already available, it’s just not affordable. In fact, GM recently announced that it is to suspend production of it’s latest hybrid car called the Volt due to it’s low demand. It’s a nice car, and a hybrid is good, in concept, but with a price tag of around $40,000, it would take years to just break even with your gas consumption.
For whatever reason the technology of alternative fuel is held up, may it be the greed of the oil companies, afraid to have a competitive market with alternative energy or may it be simply that the technology is actually not developed enough to produce affordable alternatives. The fact is, right here, right now, we are addicted to oil and with it’s current prices it has us on a choke hold!
It does not help either that the pricing of oil does not even make sense at a basic level. That even though oil companies, refineries or whatever you call them, already bought those oil barrels for the cheap, way before this Iran issue and that turning it into gasoline will not cost them anymore than they usually do, these so called speculators, the same speculators that gave us the real estate fiasco, which to me are nothing more than a bunch of bullies playing with the lives people, some how deem that gas price should increase 10 cents everyday!
They would say that it is basic supply and demand. well we surely have the supply! Don’t we have Afghanistan and Iraq! Isn’t that what the wars were all about, not to mention the laying out of pipelines for the 76 gas!
We have already stuck our heads in so many world conflicts for the sake of a group of people’s profit, that we have paid for with millions of dollars and thousands of lives and yet, their greed still prevails.
Well, you can all go to hell!
Incidentally an add actually tells a high ranking politician to actually go to hell!
When i say high ranking, i mean the president to of the united states of america!
go to hell Barrack!
Was what an ad at the Clarendon metro station used as a tag line, according to the washington examiner. This of course sparked a lot of contraverscie, well what do you expect! now a days it seems like we can’t speak our minds anymore!
Fortunately due to previous first amendment law suits, the metro has learned that the ad is well within the first amendment, and so it stays.
It may not be tasteful, it may be offensive, but common! it is not all that bad or is it?
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