Oil

I guess all the 'no oil for blood' stickers are going to start making a lot more sense:

Bush gets what he wants.

It is disheartening to see that what the US has cared about all along was not the liberation of Iraqis but the ability to award no-bid contracts to filthy oil companies. So, thousands of dead soldiers and civilians for what... a 50 cent price cut at the pumps? Will Americans accept this? Without hesitation.

Suck it up

The average price of gasoline in Bellingham has just hit $4.00 per gallon with diesel hovering a little below $5.00 a gallon.

The phenomena of rising oil prices has produced a strange effect throughout the town; if you open a window and lean your right ear towards the sky you can actually hear it: like a mosquito buzzing above your head while you sleep, but this is no mosquito its the collective whining of an oil addicted populace.

I have no sympathy what-so-ever. This new reality is exactly the answer this stupid culture has been unwittingly asking for over the past 100 years. When you eagerly shove all your eggs into one basket, a basket with a dwindling half-life, a basket owned by enourmous corporate entities with green in their hearts and grubby thick hands this is what you reap. So its time to suck it up people, you asked for it. Indefinitely cheap oil was always a pipe dream; and the automobile the great unchallenged premise of our age. Think its bad now? Wait till it gets really expensive.

To continue the analogy, I've come to liken the whining drivers to an abused wife who keeps taking her husband back even though he just turns around and smacks her the next day. "Oh, but it'll be better this time, I know he really loves me..." SMACK!

So gas up the SUVs and Ford 350s, its Memorial Day weekend and we Americans are God's people and doing whatever we want whenever we want is our birthright. Drive away!