Political Finagling?

[HARDCORE]

Only a damned fool would not have suspected that ?Big Bucks (oil)? and government where not jumping into bed with each other over the petroleum distribution and pricing issue. ?Fuel will always be a politically motivating factor!?

Petroleum has been used to help start wars (Japan, WWII for example), create good (and bad) guys, generate vast fortunes, and hold the populations of any given nation hostage! Countless numbers of people have even died for lack of warmth or transport, but for far too many in the oil industry, it?s all just politics and finance!

I can not help but wonder by what means these oil moguls plan to talk their way out of Hell during their last accounting! For that matter, there will be a cornucopia of political finaglers who will be working their jaws overtime in an effort to turn down their own heat! (opinion)

And what about the ?Big Oil Companies?? The supply of fossil fuels is not without limits you know, and alternative sources of energy must be utilized if the wheels of progress are to keep turning! As such, it should come as no big surprise that the major auto companies have always had the ability to turn out more energy efficient cars! And at least one major auto manufacturer has admitted that it could turn out a decent sized car that sacrifices little of what we have come to expect, but is still capable of getting around 40 mpg!

General Motors and Dow Chemical claim to be working on hydrogen fuel cell production. An efficient, clean-burning gasoline alternative, that could make it into production by 2010. ?If there is any air left to breath by then??

As a matter of fact, Senator Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, one of the individuals who patriotically backed our recent (and successful) action in Iraq, is also championing the energy issue, citing (I believe ?) the fact than 2/3 of our fuel is currently imported!

Lastly, and again concerning America?s energy needs, the media has just reported (for what it is worth) that the ?Halliburton Corporation of Texas? I believe, not only landed the contract to extinguish the oil fires of Iraq, but also to run the massive and profitable oil well operation there! And Halliburton was a former employer of our own Vice President, it is reported, not that there is any current connection of course!

Damned, If I keep up this line of reasoning, I might begin to think again of the old ?Teapot Dome Issue (1923)? of President Warren Harding (R-Ohio) !?

Under our 29th President the vast Teapot Dome of Wyoming, as well as the Elk Hills Oil Deposits of California, caused quite a furor, but of course, this could never happen in this day and age - Could It?

Nowadays, a bi-partisan concern for the overall welfare of our entire nation is (or at least should be) of primary concern. We are, after all, ?Americans One And All!? And the title of ?American? is of far more importance and substance than any transient political party tag!!

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