I think everybody should be conserving whether you can afford $5.00 gas or not. Kind of along the lines of just because you can do something, doesn’t necessarily mean you should do something… Like I said, in their own unique way, the rich gas guzzlers are aiding some of our biggest enemies.

{Channeling Al Gore; possibly the world’s biggest energy hypocrite}

Thanks for stopping by, but I don’t really need to change anything to boycott Exxon, since all the gas for my cars is purchased at Super America, which is a subsidiary of Marathon Oil. In other words, I guess I’m already boycotting them.

Interesting idea though.

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OK I suppose that I see your point. Conserving gas in and of itself is more about self preservation than anything else. Perhaps then, it’s those who do it and spread the word. To that end, I’ve got the Chamber and the ability to call in to radio shows (yay!). Maybe I could do more (I’ve got some rather outside-the-box ideas on this). But if that makes me patriotic, the guy who deserves the friggin Presidential Medal of Freedom would be Wayne Gerdes.

There is another way our government could protect us. Take Iraqi oil. Take Iranian oil. If we really wanted to throw our military weight around God help those oil rich barbarians.

America is a unique empire. For the first time in history, there is a shortage on a desperately needed resource, and the world’s sole super power isn’t waging a war of aggression to fleece weaker states.

Start with the Sumerians, and end with the British Empire. Not one empire has ever been as benevolent as America.

Some will say that is so because we are a democracy. But that didn’t stop the Athenians from having a direct democracy at home and exporting tyranny abroad. The same can be said of the French and the British.

Other’s will claim we don’t wage wars of acquisition because of Manifest Destiny. That our national boundaries were so large, and its native people so easy to conquer that we never had a need to expand. But look at Russian history. They expanded the same way under the same circumstances and still felt the need to play the “Great Game”. The Russians have expanded into the West and the South. The Slavs and the Turks.

I guess a maybe a weak spot in my argument would be the Mexican-American war. However, even the Texans voted to join the Union.

Uh…the dead rabbit needs to get a life.

Come winter, that development becomes life threatening for the poorer part of the populace of the Western hemisphere and the general population of the second and third world. We’re steering head over heels into a world wide crisis, only compareable to the situation in the 30ies. The business cycle will suffer accordingly – less comsumer power means less business for the industry and rising unemployment. Rising prices mean higher inflation rates in most of the Western countries.

And it’s a man made situation. It’s partly because of the ongoing war in Iraq, partly because of the simmering Iran crisis and largely because of the major oil companies syndicating instead of competing and because of stockjobbing.

No, in my eyes it’s not an act of patriotism to conserve gas. It should be the duty and the interest of the governments to protect their citizens from the worst implications. It should be, because what we’re witnessing right now is a perversion of the free market. A virtual market making money out of everybodies pockets without the least competition and to the benefit of only a few chosen ones. It should be in the interest of the government because a world wide crisis will lead to unrest and wars.

I’m part of a campaign to boycott Exxon Mobil, the current leader in profits during this energy crisis. Check it out here https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/send-a-message-to-the-oil-companies/overview

We can all do our part and this is a way to get involved. It doesn’t require much to make something big happen.

As for being out of the Carter era … well, you know … the gas situation is getting to be there, too.

Wait a minute … those are car speakers? That’s insane …

Actually, the gas prices broke the inflation adjusted record last year. We’re officially in uncharted territory now.

And yes, those are car speakers. You’ve never seen that? That’s nothing. LOL The box must have weighed 100 lbs, so losing it helped I think.