The rich continue to profit at the expense of everyone else. Nobody minds when somebody makes a buck but this is taking food out of peoples mouths and the roofs from over their heads. This is taking money from the blind mans cup.
"Oil prices rose to near $81 a barrel Friday in Asia as crude traders followed equity markets higher ahead of a key U.S. jobs report.
Benchmark crude for April delivery was up 48 cents to $80.69 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 66 cents to settle at $80.21 on Thursday.
U.S. stock markets rose Thursday on investor optimism that the February unemployment rate, scheduled to be released by the Labor Department later Friday, will show the economy is recovering. The jobless rate in January was 9.7 percent."
AP
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Tom,
ReplyDeleteIf in the 1980s after the TMI disaster (which had neither injured nor killed ANY member of the public) we had continued with building nuclear power plants, we wouldn't today be talking about the price of crude because we would be producing our own liquid fuels from nuclear-supplied electricity, coal and the Fischer–Tropsch process.
200 nuclear power plants were cancelled after TMI. Our country could have been 60% nuclear today instead of 20%, and we would be able to tell the Islamic fascists to go drown in their mineral slime. Now we have a mere 104 nukes with 600 coal plants spewing toxic refuse into air and water, and a transportation industry utterly reliant on mineral slime in lands of Islamic fascism.
We will now reap the whirlwind, and sadly, it'll be the most innocent and the most vulnerable who will suffer for the greedy decisions of the powerful.
Yet many still demand coins thrown from Palatine Hill.
If we were a truly independent people, relying on no one but ourselves and our families for our livelihood:
ReplyDeleteand, if we expected the same philosophical independence to be part and parcel of our government and its operating principles;
and if we applied reason and logic to our decision making process instead of being led by the loudest voice;
and if we had just stopped to think about the difference between Chernobyl and TMI and realized that is not the science that was at fault but the underlying political system. Chernobyl was doomed to failure while TMI was just a technological blip, a minor failure from which the American science would recover and move forward; if all of these things were true, today we would proudly raise our middle finger to the rest of the world, close our doors and live happily and comfortably forever more.
Of course, as my Dad is wont to say, "If ifs and ands were pots and pans , we wouldn't need any tinners."
You're right. We are about to reap the whirlwind and have no one to blame but ourselves.