I thought that I had heard enough hair-brained schemes through that purveyor of nonsense, the random email, to last me a lifetime. As if it wasn't bad enough getting emails telling you to boycott a certain gas company in hopes that they will lower their prices and have the others follow, as if Facebook users saying "Don't buy gas for a day," to hurt the gas companies wasn't utterly stupid enough (there is no other term to describe it), now we have the best advice on lowering gas prices. Ever. From Donald Trump, no less.
The Donald seems to think that all we have to do is just "tell" OPEC to lower prices, and they'll do it. But this makes no sense, you say. Ah, but The Donald is here to remind us that it just takes the right messenger, something we all should have learned from The Godfather. His point is that Obama is the wrong messenger, and I assume he wants us to believe that it is he who would make a good messenger. But if the special pleadings from George W. Bush to his friends in the Saudi royal family weren't enough to persuade OPEC, and if OPEC is controlled by lots of bad folk who don't like America very much, then who is possibly naive enough to think that we can get what we want just by asking? And what about supply and demand, or the civil war in Libya disrupting supplies...or, dare I mention it, our dwindling supplies of oil worldwide! Surely those can't have anything to do with the high cost of oil? At least that seems to be Trump's world view, or even worse, he's just purveying this tripe because he thinks that his potential base will eat it up. May I be proven wrong on that last one, but if that is the case then we are truly finished as a civilization.
Peak oil is on the horizon, and we are running out of time very quickly, probably faster than most people realize. We do ourselves no good by sticking our heads in the sand.
The Donald seems to think that all we have to do is just "tell" OPEC to lower prices, and they'll do it. But this makes no sense, you say. Ah, but The Donald is here to remind us that it just takes the right messenger, something we all should have learned from The Godfather. His point is that Obama is the wrong messenger, and I assume he wants us to believe that it is he who would make a good messenger. But if the special pleadings from George W. Bush to his friends in the Saudi royal family weren't enough to persuade OPEC, and if OPEC is controlled by lots of bad folk who don't like America very much, then who is possibly naive enough to think that we can get what we want just by asking? And what about supply and demand, or the civil war in Libya disrupting supplies...or, dare I mention it, our dwindling supplies of oil worldwide! Surely those can't have anything to do with the high cost of oil? At least that seems to be Trump's world view, or even worse, he's just purveying this tripe because he thinks that his potential base will eat it up. May I be proven wrong on that last one, but if that is the case then we are truly finished as a civilization.
Peak oil is on the horizon, and we are running out of time very quickly, probably faster than most people realize. We do ourselves no good by sticking our heads in the sand.
Peak oil already passed lol. When's the last time a new reserve was discovered?
ReplyDeleteThe one off the coast of Brazil was pretty substantial, and that was within the last two years. But that seems to be the exception, not the rule, and reports seem to indicate that the Saudi oil fields are nearing or are already in decline.
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