Fuel Cost Today

I would be happy with $3.40 Moto...... I paid $3.96 yesterday......

 

Local, 3.79\9 as of three days ago. It's been steady for about 8 weeks.

 

We have a refinery up the road in Arlington, but I think they truck that gas to California and they bring gas from there back up here, to sell to us.... there really seems to be no logic in the business, other than profit margin

 

Yup, it's all about empowering the corporate cartels. If the people really knew the truth about alternate forms of energy, the whole fossil fuel empire would collapse. But, so many have been acclimated and brainwashed to believe there is no viable alternative, that it becomes easy to perpetuate the lie. How many people are plugged in to the grid and are dependent upon power from corporate utilities? How many people live in above ground homes and McMansions which are inefficient energy siphons? The control matrix and this entire paradigm will continue in perpetuity as long as we continue to empower the same handful of cartels.

 

Somebody still hasn't taken the red pill....

 

And when corporations are in the government business, it becomes even more interesting.

 

Iran is sitting on the worlds third largest oil reserves. A lot of the "leaders" in the U.S. "Government" are drooling over propping up the petro-dollar even further. The attack on Iraq secured trading oil for dollars once again, and the entire Middle East is being primed for conflict. You will see Syria and Iran getting into this, and when this progresses, a "solution" to the new Iraq problem will have to be addressed. Will ISIS and other radical groups end up gaining control of the oil fields and cause problems? Quite possibly. But, will they maintain control and start selling oil in exchange for gold or Euros again? Short term, maybe...long term, I highly doubt it. As for the oil prices here at home, that's purely speculative.

The United States economy is headed for a total collapse, and so is the Euro. The U.S. debt is at about 17 trillion dollars, and growing rapidly. The total amount isn't as important to understand as knowing what's keeping it all in check. We still have the quadrillion dollar derivatives market. That's an inconceivable figure. As long as the majority of the world continues to carry the dollar and it remains the lead petro-dollar, the collapse will be abated, but even this is arguable. Now, some people might ask, "why go to war and raise the national debt if the economy is failing?" and it's a legitimate question if this system were actually backed by something of substance like gold or silver. The entire system is corrupt to the core, the monetary system is backed by nothing, it's completely FIAT and in private hands. The whole system can collapse tomorrow, and the following day they can have a new one ready to go. The goal is to create a unified currency as has been described by Evelyn Rothschild and several economists and members of organizations like The Council on Foreign Relations and others. However, this new currency cannot come into existence as long as there are competing economies guarding the lifeblood of profit making -namely the primary oil reserves in the Middle East. The Middle East is the next great battleground, and has been since the first invasion of Iraq in the 1990's. Will Russia, China and Iran control these oil assets, or will it be the "Democratic" powers of the U.S., Britain and its allies? Chances are, we will see world war with Russia, but certain peripheral enemies must also be taken care of first, namely N. Korea. So, what is the time table like? Well, I don't see a war occurring with multiple fronts the way everything sits currently. I would pay attention to Israel and not rule out their influence. As for how N. Korea unfolds, is anybody's guess. N. Korea already has massive food shortages, and the sanctions are very seriously taking a toll. They may end up being a null-state threat, but their ace in the hole is nuclear weapon capability, however limited it may be. Perhaps they could be forced into escalating a conflict. It would give the U.S. all the pretext they need to spank them hard. This would significantly weaken China and its influence with a number of SE Asian countries.

Damn. Well, never mind.

 

I think it's more about the corporations maintaining and even increasing profits than it is about breaking even or *gasp* taking a loss for risking a bold move to attempt discovery of oil in less than promising areas. With the increase in oil prices comes enormous ventures by the corporate oil cartels to spread out and grab oil in every conceivable way. We are talking about Canada's black sand processing, with Shell expanding their Athabasca oil sands project, to actually drilling for oil in the arctic. Previously, these ventures wouldn't have been profitable enough to risk, but with a seemingly ever increasing market value on oil, virtually everything is within scope. The tar sands in Canada are extremely destructive. And we still see the same handful of corporations taking the lead and trying to edge out the smaller companies, keeping their comfortable profit margins and sucking the planet dry. We all know how heavily the U.S. depends on oil, with very few public transit systems, most Americans drive to work, sometimes quite a long distance to their low paying jobs. There is no real motive to alter this terrible cycle as long as the oil cartels and their political allies continue to reap massive profits, and as long as the petro-dollar reigns on the global stage, with force and threat of war as the incentive should any nation dare to trade in an alternate currency. The advent of war itself has proven to be quite profitable for the government arms trade business, and there appears to be no end in sight for this high stakes game.

Until the corporations actually suffer losses, and I mean real losses, not insured loss or bailout losses, this terrible game will continue. But, what are the chances for that? We obviously need to implement alternate energy solutions, and I know we have the technology and capacity, it's just too bad it doesn't serve the interests of the globalists and their agenda to establish total corporate control and a unified global monetary scheme. The longer we continue to accept their excuses and convoluted explanations for necessitating the oil cartel scheme, the harder the transition will be to actually adopt sound energy principles. If we just placed more effort into sustaining renewable energy alone, this would at least alleviate some of the pressure long enough to adopt more sensible solutions for oil dependency.