Conjugation; or, why you don't deserve lower gas prices
Just listen to the first five seconds of the above clip, i didn't watch the rest of the video, so i'm not expecting you to.
Okay, i know blogging, youtube, and all of this other "media 2.0" shit has severely lowered the bar, but COME ON!!!
why IS oil prices so high
you're a schmuck, and you deserve to be taken advantage of by the oil companies, "corporate America" the bush administration, and whoever else you cry to your mommy about before making youtube videos bitching about how stupid you are.
even this kid makes a tad more sense than your sorry ass:
"i am in the 9th grade and i am dong a paper of why the gas is so high and i am against it i need a little bit more information because all the sits i have looked at is supporting the price if you could get me some web sites that would be great thank you very much have a good day"
well, not too much more.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE???
It's no wonder we're paying in the $4 range for a damn gallon of gas. We're too fucking stupid to stop putting that shit in our cars or come up with something better.
A Google search for this information leaves one bored and confused after 10 minutes of searching, and we all know the average searcher will give up within 1-2 minutes; so the information is simply not getting into the hands of the public.
Most people will just blame Bush and Cheney and say "well he works for Halliburton man, he's getting rich off of the gas prices dude"
While this may be a component of the problem, it doesn't tell us what we as average consumers can do about this.
Last night I was watching the last bastion of truth on television, C-Span, which is only true because there is absolutely no commentary whatsoever, it's WYSIWYG information; and Senator Chuck Schumer had the Executive VPs and CEOs of all of the major oil companies sitting right in front of him for questioning. He asked the tough questions, "why are people paying 4 bucks at the pump while you're making record profits" the CEO of Chevron replied, "we have a well supplied market, and the demand is growing, when demand grows, price goes up" he kept on in this mode for the duration of the hearing, but the question he failed to ask is WHY, WHY WHY WHY.
What the fuck is so hard about asking the WHY? Why did Bush have to go to Saudi Arabia months after offering them a ton of weapons to literally beg to drop prices while dicking around on this stupid bike?
Is this really such an epistemological quandary that we can't come up with the answers, and then SOMETHING to help folks afford gas and heating their homes? I mean gosh, thank God it's the summer, and thank God Bush gave us the Economic Stimulus Package so we can spend it all giving his oil buddies more money, that fucking criminal hack.
It's mostly demand from China and India, one of whom we'll be at war with in 20 years, by the way.
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Posted by Stephanie on May 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM MDT #