Skating on The Precipice; To Gas or Not to Gas?

Nobody’s Opinion: What a week this was! CNN, FOX, and MSNBC were all desperately trying to feel the pulse of America, create an urgency of horror for us to tune in to so that we would stay in the vortex of impending fear and stayed glued to our television sets. There just wasn’t much to work with to fill up the spaces. When they start showing spring snowstorms clips, you know they are getting desperate.

Tom Cruise finally had his baby, and then, silence. That balloon popped and fizzled. The story of the stripper that was raped in a very small bathroom by it seems a whole lacrosse team and their drunken buddies was dragging along, until the other stripper that was there hired a PR company to get maybe a book signing. Halle Berry has already signed up for this part.

Aruba is more complicated than a Microsoft training manual and the bird flu is a non- event waiting to happen, no matter how hard they try to scare you.

Remember AIDS? We were all going to die. Scars? Anthrax? The West Nile Virus?
My neighbor was so scared by mosquitoes one year she thought that I was breeding them in my little backyard above ground pool. She suggested I did not need a pool. She was sure she was going to die. They are really good at creating havoc.

President Hu came out and like the dictator he is, acted like he thought he was sitting next to a cockroach when he was next to President Bush at the White House. Then he got up and said he owns Taiwan. He knows this is the time to take it when Microsoft, GE, and all the big guys want to get into his market. It’s already in the bag.

It will be that simple. He will just claim it’s his, and it will be. There will be no big reports about it on our news, because…it’s not good for business. Just a simple merger.

But the big story of the week, came on Friday of course. The price for a barrel of oil went up to $75.00. Everyone in America was thinking, “Whew---sure glad I filled up on Wednesday.” It’s not like we weren’t expecting it. The same thing happened last summer and the summer before last.

In fact, they hike it up right at the moment they know you will be driving. Remember just before Christmas last year it went down. All they do is deny the obvious.

I don’t know about you, but all the different theories on this oil stuff keeps you so confuse that you have no idea what to think. Everyone passes the buck.

Here’s the buck passing…and passing …and passing.

The men who own the gas stations swear it’s not their fault because 90% of the price is already established by the oil companies and the government. They make so little they say, that they have to charge more just to be sure that they have enough to pay for the next shipment. Pass it.

The government says it’s because China is now using more oil, so that means less for us. Besides, we’re gas hogs. We should stop going places and using all the gas up. Pass it.

Never mentioning that with every nickel jump in the price, that’s just more tax dollars taken off for them…so they are enjoying this. They COULD freeze the taxes on gas, or at least take them off temporality, but the chances of that happening is about as good as Dolly Parton going down to an A cup.

The men who buy the oil from the Saudi’s, Chavez, and whoever say that it’s the men of OPEC who set the price, and they have no choice in what to charge. It’s the Saudi’s sucking us dry, and keeping us forever fighting wars overseas so they can live the rich exuberant life they so detest. The buck is real dirty now.

So, in come the Democrats today, Hillary seeing blood, or at least a good vampire bite, and she announces we need another huge money- sucking government Department.

“We have the National Institutes of Heath: why don’t we have a National Institutive of Energy?” Right. Be sure, if Hillary becomes President, that’s not the only department she will create. She’ll have a department to create solar energy, a department to create wind mills, a department to create ethanol, a department to create bicycles and more rickshaws, and a department just to watch Bill Clinton.

She will suggest we all stop walking and use the new Segway Human Transporter. (A two wheeled scooter) and rickshaws will be put into every city, park, and school zone.

Never to miss an opportunity to blast her nemesis on Earth Day, she also blames President Bush for every single environmental problem in the world. Frankly, I hope she paints herself green, and goes for a long walk in the Amazon.

But here’s a little known fact: Some time ago The Unocal Corporation got a patent on a “recipe” for a lower emissions gasoline; it was upheld by a United Stated appeals court. This sent all the smaller producers and blenders running in fear of being taken to court for infringing the patent. Refinery’s stopped being built, and those who stayed in business have to pay a royalty to Unocal. This led to higher prices, and one of the reasons refineries are not being built. One wonders just what the royalty persentage is.

China tried to buy Unocal (which has a wide international market and base) and when the United States Congress interfered, China got tough. She went directly to Iran, saying to the United States, “Your US-based money is no good.”

So, where’s the buck now? Follow the no-good money. The new big market for the big companies is in environmental and energy saving devices… (windmills, ethanol, energy efficient light bulbs...) it’s the New World Order Mandate and so if we won’t give up our cars, the only way they can force us to...is to create the problem, (high prices, melting icecaps) and come in with the solution, (smaller, ugly cars) and tax all these new solution up the buck-a-roo.

Another American freedom is being taken away, and years from now we will say while we are getting out our skateboards…

“Honey, remember that old SUV we use to have? Those were the good old days.”

Nobody’s Knows: The Royal Philips Electronics Company has patented a nifty little device that will prevent you from turning off commercials. This will be implemented unless we all stop buying everything ever advertised. It’s what they call a win-win situation. The companies will know that you can’t flip the channel, and the cable companies will charge you a ten dollar fee for the convenience of dismantling it.

Nobody’s Perfect: In my article this week, the man that killed his wife and two others for garnishing his wages actually had four children. I said one. But in fairness to me, I got my first information from the Post-Dispatch, who suffers from imperfection daily. I should have considered the source...

Nobody Cares; Area 51 is the size of Switzerland, and in 1564, John Sparke was exploring Florida and reported it was full of unicorns.

AND according to a book called ed “Black Gold, Strangle Hold,” oil is abundant all over earth.

Have a great weekend driving around while saying "To gas, or not to gas? That is the question."