Let's Use our Brains Against OPEC

BWB has found a second area in which it agrees with the President of the United States, and any other politician for that matter, when he says we must end our dependence on foreign oil. We should have done this yesterday; we should have done this in the 1970’s. Lamentably it isn’t that easy to get away from sweet baby crude; it has got a hold of us stronger than a junkie with his spoon.

The simple and undeniable truth is that OPEC is making a push to rule the world by controlling with an iron grip the one commodity the world’s infrastructure depends on, namely crude oil. The control the supply, and they aren’t releasing any greater value, they have said, which will send the price skyrocketing yet again. What will that mean for you? It will mean higher and higher gasoline prices yet again.

With this whole “green” push corporations, small businesses and the government seem to be making, perhaps the answer to combustibles is right around the corner. In fact, Reno got its first hydrogen docking station within the last month, so perhaps we are already on our way. Still, we need to counter OPEC, and release America from her shackles.

Trying to pin down any actual information on OPEC actually interacts with the eleven nations they represent is shockingly difficult, but most cartels prefer it that way. What we do know is that they are exceedingly effective in doing three things. First, they are quite deft at manipulating the supply of oil at a certain time of their choosing. Second, they are exceedingly swift at raising and lowering the price whenever they choose, as they race to the moon with their grand cities in the desert built on the blood of the economy.

What if, in the body, the heart played fast and loose with the blood, stockpiling and limiting its supply when it saw fit? Imagine if there was a blood commodities trade where each organ and body part had to bid on the price, raising the stakes and the cost of a pint of blood precipitously. The brain would be the United States, so desperate and dependent on the blood; it would literally buckle and bow to the extortion without a fight. The brain wouldn’t do that, of course, because the brain is smarter than the heart.

The brain would call up the bone marrow and tell them to create more blood, lessening the influence on the blood the heart was holding kidnapped against its will. If the supply of blood increased then the blood would be worth less. Besides, the brain, the organ which controls the body would never allow such a thing to happen to begin with. Why doesn’t America do the same; why can’t we call the bone marrow? Why can’t we drill on our own?

There is one and only one strategy which will work to diminish the power and influence of the Middle Eastern oil gangsters and their lackeys we refer to as terrorists. We need to develop alternative energies as fast as absolutely possible (which we are doing) and lift the moratoriums on drilling for twenty years, allowing us to access and harness our own resources until the next generation is ready, willing and able to support our society.