It's time to..........

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Nationalize the oil industry. Speculation is driving prices out of control. Industry anylysts speculate (ie: they use the "what if a dinosaur eats my house" theory, nevermind that dinosaurs have been extinct for a couple million years there is DNA cloning you know, sooooo it could happen, maybe, I think) The King in Saudi Arabia dies and zing up go the prices, "what's gonna happen there with the King gone? Nevermind he has been a vegetable for three years before he died and his brother, now the new King, has been running the country for the last three years but you know, again, something could happen so, speculate on what could happen and up they go. Hurricane Katrina wipes out the mid Gulf coast and oil rigs are down, speculate and zing agian up they go ( actually they last a day and a half and most are in full production again0 but all you need is a threat and the specualtion thereof and we get bent over at the pump.

In 1989 there were over three hundred refineries in the godd 'ol U.S. of A. The tree huggers lobbyist got through more stringent laws and we are dwon to 2/3rds of that number so fuel production goes through the floor here. The reason is that the oil companies don't want to spend profits refining the refining plants, that will cut into profits and the CEO doesn't get his usual 22 million dollar yearly bonus. So shut down the plants lay off a thousand or two workers and we all get fattewr up here in the head office. The American way.

The individual States could ease up, temporarily of course, on thier fuel taxes. Here in Massachusetts alone something like .62 cents a gallon. The would help.

The National Goverment could freeze prices with a ceiling. A nationalization would aloow the govt. to set prices, build new plants and control distribution and allow exploration in untapped areas due to national crisis. The lobbyists woiuld have a coronary of course.

Soon it will be 3.00 a gallon. No one seems to care in govt. Everyone still wants their big SUV's. Course if we all stopped driving for a day the oil industry would use the lack of sales and speculate the looses and drive prices up to regain those losses. It, along with the insurance business and Credit cards has to be the biggest legal theft operation around and no one cares but the little guys who just want to put a couple gallons in the tank and take mom and the kids out for a pizza but can't because they now have to limit thier spending so Dad can have fuel to drive to work and they can't buy what they used to at the store cuase they need that extra 30 bucks a week for the store who raised their prices cause you gotta ship food and commodities by truck and the fuel costs have to be absorbed by the consumers or else profits will go down. We are so screwed it isn't funny.

Anyone who voted for Bush and his cronies should be ashamed of themselves. Hope you are happy when inflation spirals cause of this. Do you think this is utopia? But of course GW doesn't have the balls to insult the very industry that got his father his fortune and by way of him his own. He is making money from this, lot's of it. He should be impeached!!!!!!!!!!!!!!