Coffee is good this morning, it brings with it, the new day.
Another day in Paradise.
Car lots, surprisingly are full. Everyone is out and about, exercising their rights in a free economy and exhibiting all the signs of membership in the herd mentality.
Stop by today! Let one of our finance specialists show you how you can sit yourself in a brand new hoopie of your choice, the money you save on fuel, will make your carpayment ……. Yeah sure, if you are commuting to say …… Pakistan every day.
What a concept. I will buy a new car and therefore, cope with rising costs associated with oil. Wrong. Hopelessly frustrated, we appear to be like those little furry animals over in Europe that rush headlong to the edge of the cliff I saw on the Disney Channel or some other show. They all gather together in a large group, and then rush over into the abyss, ultimately to their imminent death.
Our new shell shock reality in the Heart-land. Lemmings, that is it, we are turning into a herd of lemmings. Which isn’t all that really bad for me in Land-Locked Oklahoma, we just don’t have a whole lot cliffs in my neighborhood. I should be safe for at least a little while more.
So I take solace in the fact that oil or an oil based economy is in actuality a curse. Sitting back in my chair, sippin’ my coffee, I take pleasure in knowing what is coming for all these newly enriched oil potentates and billionaires.
I close my eyes, and I can see all of them, towels wrapped around their well tanned heads, sitting underneath a sick camel. In the background Big Oil Executives tied to the stakes baking in the hot desert sand …… Yeah, that is sweet, I can really get into that … but of course, I am a sick puppy every now and then.
Oil producing nations, drunk on new wealth, with an influx of billions of dollars will quickly become dependent on it for survival (if not already). Their economies will rise and fall with the tide of oil profits. They will become like us in a sense, dependent on imports to sustain their new reality. They too will develop deep rooted resentments as disparities in income overtake their societies.
And of course, with wealth, comes problems.
These countries on the upswing will have to deal with the fair share of tyrants, murderers, terrorists in their ranks. The Mullahs, Hugo Chavez’s, Vladimir Putins of the world will now become less accountable for their actions. Oil and the riches it will bring, will give all of them, the good, the bad and the ugly … their day in the sun.
In the end it will be … Gold and guns … the new currency of the 21st Century.
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I heard on the news that Dow Chemical was raising thier prices by 20 percent across the board. I was amazed to see the extent of their business. They maufacture chemicals for everything from plastics to water purification to insecticied, herbicides, & fungicides… Not to mention the million of jiggling breasts implants that they provided.
Comment by betme — June 2, 2008 @ 11:53 am
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, technology and better living thru chemistry, what would we do without it? How guys can take a whole bunch of one’s and zero’s and put them together and naked people pop up, isn’t that something. Then the “jiggling thing” what can I say?
Not long ago I was out at the Mall and this nice looking sweetheart comes walking up and she is bra-less and well, I am looking and on her shirt it is lettered … GUESS … So I said “Implants?” and she slapped me.
Another day in paradise.
20% across the board huh? Man-man, makes a person wonder if it will ever stop. This is called “Inflation” I believe, a term that the Bush administration doesn’t seem to recognize or validate in this day and age.
We are being squeezed in the Age of Scarcity, I would say get used to it, I doubt if it will get any better.
DS
Comment by Don Smith — June 3, 2008 @ 5:09 am