W.R. McAfee, Sr. (c)copyright 2011

OPINION

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The Russians have proffered oil reproduces itself from earth pressures and heat. Called A-biotic oil.  They’ve deduced this from the ultra-deep land wells they’ve drilled.  Been a few technical papers written.  No publicity, etc., etc.”

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The quaint and would be humorous per gallon comparisons with gasoline below are always trotted out by some clown behind the curtain on the Internet every time there’s a new gas gouge. (Usually it’s “. . .well looky there at what Europeans are paying. . .Be grateful you ain’t paying that. . .”)

 

Diet Snapple  16 oz $1.29. . . . .$10.32 per gallon

Lipton Ice Tea  16 oz $1.19 . . . .$9.52 per gallon

Gatorade  20 oz $1.59  . . . . . . .$10.17 per gallon

Ocean Spray  16 oz $1.25 . . . . .$10.00 per gallon

Brake Fluid  12 oz $3.15. . . . . . $33.60 per gallon

Vick’s Nyquil  6 oz $8.35 . . . . $178.13 per gallon

Pepto Bismol  4 oz $3.85 . . . . $123.20 per gallon

Whiteout  7 oz $1.39 . . . . . . . . $25.42 per gallon

Scope  1.5 oz $0.99 . . . . . . . . . .$84.48 per gallon

Evian water  9 oz $1.49 . . . . . . $21.19 per gallon

Printer Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,200 per gallon (the computer                                                                                                  industry’s gas pump.)

I suppose all this could be smirky, at least until one stops and fills one’s pickup up, which I did last night:  $82.18 @ 3.39.99 per gallon.

Did I mention there’s no oil shortage?  Never has been.  No such thing as “peak oil.” Even when we all sat in lines at gas stations at 4 a.m. in the eighties after those mean ole A-rabs “embargoed U.S. oil. . .” and we “found out” how serious it was; that the U.S. was “. . .running out of oil. . .” 

All lies.  Economic propaganda. All designed to shake us down at the gas pump. We (and the world) have fields that have never been tapped. There are huge fields in Montana and the Dakotas. . . Gull Island  off the North Slope. . . Green River Basin in Colorado . . .  the current boom in the South-to-Central Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale. . . ANWAR. Oil companies—who control Arab oil—know exactly where these and other fields are around the world, and the estimated oil in them. 

The Russians have proffered oil reproduces itself from earth pressures and heat. Called A-biotic oil.  They’ve deduced this from the ultra-deep land wells they’ve drilled.  Been a few technical papers written.  No publicity, etc., etc. Russia even offered to help during BP’s—What? Me worry?—blasphemous blowout. We declined.  Their parting advice was:  “. . .well, you have to be careful when you drill that deep.  Never know what you’re going to find down there. . .”

Or words to that effect.

Anyone notice how quickly the First Gulf War ended when the Middle East’s oil ‘arrangements’ were threatened?

A good friend who worked in personnel at a Houston medical lab (corporation) told me they had employees coming into their  HR office during the last gas gouge telling them they had to quit because they could no longer afford the drive to work. No mass transit in Houston to speak of.  Takes a couple hours to get from one side of the city to the other whether you’re driving a car or riding a bus.  Or partway through  during rush hour.  (And don’t even think about a bicycle. Or motorcycle unless you love living on the edge. Houston drivers are a rather unforgiving lot.  Calloused, really. City’s freeways are the last place in the world you want to have a  flat, breakdown, run out of gas. I digress.)

Those who quit should have car-pooled?  Saved their money for a rainy gas day?  Moved closer to work? Hard to do on a $7-$11 an hour lab technician’s pay, feed a family, pick up kids.

Can’t be done in America any more.

Gas pump gangsters, Wall Street, and our electeds have made it so.