If these investment bankers predicted oil would be $300 a barrel next year, it would come true. It's amazing how much power these speculators have.
"The near-term outlook for oil prices continues to be bullish," it says. Yeah, and in more ways than one.
On the other hand, car manufacturers (at least around here) are finally catching on to the fact that SUVs are nothing more than overrated status symbols. There's this Ford dealership not too far from me that seemed to have nothing but SUVs and big-assed trucks in its lots for years on end. I went by there the other day, and all those vehicles were gone, replaced by economy and mid-sized cars. I thought I'd stepped into an alternate universe or something.
And the prices? They were advertising $109 a month on some of those cars. I'm like, "That's it?" I had to not buy one of those cars. If I wait six more months, I could probably get one for half that. Sure, gas'll be eight bucks a gallon by then, but since I only live about five miles from where I work and I don't intend to go anywhere else except maybe a bar where bands play, I think I can handle the cost...
The damn lawnmower has turned into a Lexus!
So who wants to bet there'll be another bullshit "National Gas Out Day"?
I'm with you: I've got no sympathy at all. We should have started taking care of this bullshit 30 years ago.
Who wants to lay a wager that when gas is $10/gal., we'll still be nowhere closer to alt. fuels, electric cars, etc., etc., etc.?
We are screwed, screwed, screwed.
I blame my parents.
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