TheLastManInAmerica

Say you want a revolution?

We better get it on right away!

                                                               “Power to The People”-John Lennon (1971) 

Everyday it seems the story is repeated: “Gas prices hit another record high!” If you watch the evening news or read the daily headlines this is nothing new. But what is news is the everyday American’s willingness to be violated in such a way. As billionaire oil tycoons lube up the price of gas, John Q. Public bends over submissively to take it in the nether regions, without so much as a gasp or groan. But I suppose the average citizen has been worked over so well and so often by the rich in this decade that these areas have expanded to accommodate such poundings.

            An oil company turns %60 percent profits in consecutive years while gas prices reach record highs every afternoon. Yet, despite all this, Americans shrug it off with a, “Meh, what are you going to do?” Despite the fact that some families have to choose between milk or fuel (often times choosing the latter), presidents and CEOs of these companies keep raking it in. And you ask why? Because you are such a submissive, spineless slut that would rather take out your frustrations on your neighbor, who suffers just the same, by stealing their gas! Indeed, “What are you going to do?

            Two-hundred-some-odd years ago, a group of people rebelled against the price the British had put on tea by hijacking a boat load of it and dumping it intoBoston
Harbor. Not that tea is as valuable a commodity as gasoline is today, but the point is these people stood up and let their oppressors know what they thought of their avarice. This is the kind of display that is needed today. Now, dumping a tanker full of oil into any body of water is probably the wrong thing to do; but something needs to happen to let these pimps know what is thought of their ways.

Gas prices are expected to reach $5 in this area soon and who knows if it will ever come down! If you work for minimum wage you can’t purchase a gallon and a half for an hour’s work at these rates! How much longer can people shrug it off as a minor financial inconvenience before lashing out?  When will gas stations become literal battle grounds where citizens take on totalitarian oppression instituted by the multi-billion dollar a-year corporations who have made them slaves to a product, essentially no different than really old compost?

It is only a mater of time. Unless this freight train runs out of steam, or coal, or solar power for that matter, it will happen. We have been bent too far and it is high time we break! Whether we discover alternate means to facilitate transportation or if we have to sell our homes to finance  the daily drive to work; one way or another we are witnessing the end of a world with oil. Hopefully we run out of patience before money.  

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