by Marvin J. Ramirez
Marvin J. Ramirez
Can someone really stop the escalating prices of oil, and the speculation? I Doubt it.
As Hugo Chávez said of the U.S. recently, in one of his anti-Bush discourses, we are addicted to oil. And yes, we are – because the propaganda machinery allied to the auto industry has convinced most of us for decades that we need to buy cars, while not giving us the option to buy gas-free cars. The construction industry has also participated in the plan to enslave North Americans to gasoline, by designing shopping malls on the outskirts of cities, where only in cars one can go shopping. And you can add to this new city designs, which create isolated towns, like cities in the San Francisco East Bay, where one can move around mostly only by car.
Gas-free vehicles have existed for decades. The technology has been around enough time as to have replaced the gas-burning cars longtime ago. These are cars which now exist in small numbers across the U.S., and they run with hydrogen and water.
The U.S. Congress as well as most politicians and public officials have been receiving, one way or the other, huge benefits for their support to the auto and oil industry. That is why we see only two political parties running our government for decades. Hence we continue recycling the same ‘public policies.’
Just recently, the airline industry spoke out and asked the public to write to our Congressmen and demand that they take out the speculators from the transactions, they are actually the ones who make the price of oil as high as possible, heedless of the possibility of an economic collapse because of the high cost of energy.
Today the Democrats are accusing the Bush-Cheney gang for ‘turning a blind eye’ to the excessive speculation, but this is nothing but a big hypocrisy. Both political parties are the only two parties who hold power in the Congress and the Executive branch, because of the oil, automobile, and of course, the banking industry sponsorship.
Prices will now go down a few cents for a few weeks to calm the innocent North American public down, but as all these speculation started not long ago with prices going past the $2.00 a gallon, and then going back down a few cents to calm people anxiety, it went all the way up pass the $3.00. And the same is happening now an emotional and economic manipulation. They increase them high, and decrease them a little bit.
The political game is just like baseball, the ball is played by both sides, but always among the two teams.
High prices and speculation go hand on hand and are part of the same game. Nobody can stop prices going up. Soon the gallon will hit $7.
