Good morning Middle America, you’re King of Simple News is on the air.
U.S. NEWS: As oil passed the $125 mark like a freight train passing a bum, what are the remarks being heard at the pumps and on the news, but “This is ridiculous.”
What is really ridiculous is that America didn’t plan for peak oil; that point in time when supply and demand would have a head on collision. But as I’ve reported both in this blog and in my book, it sure wasn’t that we didn’t know it was coming. We’ve known it since 1956.
Some like to point out that since King George took office, that oil has gone from $32 to $125 and it must be his fault. We could write a book on the things that are Bush’s fault, but peak oil isn’t one of them. Remember in econ 101 where the first page of the text explained the effects of supply and demand? So do I.
I watched an oil expert on the financial news last night as he gave his take on the situation. He was a tall guy with nice hair and an expensive suit speaking very confidently. He said, “OPEC could be doing a whole lot more by increasing the supply and I’m getting sick and tired of their not doing so.”
Let me translate that last statement for you. “The U.S. doesn’t have enough oil to go around and we want the people who do have the oil to get on the stick and make it cheap again. After all, don’t those people know that we are accustomed to SUVs and Diesel motor coaches?”
Those people with the oil are similar to those scalpers outside the Super Bowl with the last ticket to the game and cheap is not a word that comes to mind.
The world is running out of oil and the U.S. runs on oil…not a pretty picture. I have a friend who for more than 30 years has both drilled and owned interests in oil wells. Yesterday he told me that he has purchased a large gas tank with a pump on it to have at his home. You can take that any way that you want…I suggest that you take it seriously.
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