Amusing that oil hit 100+ bucks AFTER the holidays, huh?

[Javaman]

just my observation, but prior to the holidays, sometime in mid november, I was stating on here that the various powers that be were holding the price of oil in check to try and keep a lid on a major public freak out which would then kill any hope of an economic boost by our spend thrift ways.

Well since the holiday spending was pretty much in the dumper, the seals have been blown, and all those on the inside let the dogs of recession run free.

They stopped gaming the system and here we are with the skies the limit when it comes to oil prices.

When I stated a month and a half ago that, roughly, two weeks after the new year, oil was going to hit $100 bucks, people thought I was crazy.

I'm not here to gloat, (because it came earlier then I predicted) but I am here to say, folks, the world doesn't play by the old rules anymore and if you don't think that the price was kept low to keep the mouth breathers of our society buying their big screen tv's, I have a bridge to sell you.

And if it's not glaringly apparent to you now that our system of commerce, government, political process, judicial system, etc is gamed, then frankly, I don't know what else it will take for you to believe.

Our whole society depends on oil. Everything we do as a nation has to first be consulted by the all mighty oil guru in the sky to see if it will adversely effect the price of oil.

Then a balance between the lesser of two evils is determined and a deal is made.

The day we as a nation free ourselves from oil, will be the day of the real revolution in this country.

When we as citizens are no longer chained to global events that effect it's price, our lives will be better for it.

Someone blows up a pipeline in Nigeria; we feel it. There's an oil spill in the Black Sea, South Korea and San Francisco; we feel it. Mexico's Cantaral field drops in production; we feel it. And on and on it goes.

We can't eat, travel, poop, dress or work without it.

So as the price goes up and the price of food along with it, just remember that each and everyday, you as an individual don't cut back in its use, is one moment closer we are to it getting so expensive that life as we know it basically stops functioning.

Yeah, I'm ranting, but the time for rational discussion has passed.

Between climate change speeding up and the demand for oil increasing, we as a world, not just as a nation, will be forced to make some really hard choices very very soon.

We are at the dawn of a new era, whether we like it or not.