I am always somewhat amazed as are many just how quickly gas prices tick up at just the thought of turmoil in the Mideast. As if this is something new these countries are suffering from internal fracturing. Libya is somewhere around 3% of the world’s oil production and yet they seem to have an amazing impact on refined gasoline prices.
What is befuddling to me is the fact that these countries have been at war if not with their neighboring countries then with themselves for about as long as they have existed on the planet. They know nothing but war as the way to solve their problems. This has almost always been the case and will be long after I’m but a memory in the flash of the human being pan.
Now the oil companies and markets can have a field day with consumers in the name of political unrest in the Middle East. What a farce! It is what it is. We will continue to be the ones to suffer and they can continue to dupe the consumer simply because we have no other option. As long as Liberals are controlling things, we will be powerless to be able to drill and become self sufficient. We will, of course, make sure that the clubbed foot seal or the spotted polar bear is safe long after we have left the planet. That seems to be a noble way to snuff ourselves out.
I know….I hear many of you saying that once again this conservative whack job is just spouting off. Then again, take note of your total at the pump next time you fill up and thank the government for saving the spotted ring horned horny toad from extinction. I think we will be extinct before the toad.
