Oil -- still going sky high, and Iraq's not online??!

Iraqi fucking with their oil
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Yesterday the price of oil hit a record $64/barrel! And people thought I was tripping when I made pleas about oil reaching $80 barrel the year is out (this was back when oil was breaching $50 and Prescott Bush's presidential grandson was talking about destroying the Alaskan wildlife reserves to line the pockets of his friends and constituents over at Haliburton).

The price of gasoline in Los Angeles is off the change, routinely flirting with $3/gallon. It made me pull this widget from the internet (for my new PowerBook that's running Tiger) to tell me where the cheapest gasoline is in my area.

See the biggest problem with the high price of gasoline in LA, is that it adds more ammo to my theory that Los Angeles is strangling itself with an increasing cost of living where the economy doesn't create enough of jobs or have jobs that provide enough income to match the inflation of just about fucking everything.

Still can't understand why the Iraqi oil fields aren't just pumping, pumping, pumping. It's been over two years and the insurgents are gumming up the words like that? FUCK!

I heard that there are HUGE oil fields -- larger that what's in Saudi Arabia -- underneath the Rocky Mountains, yet accessing that oil is probably on the scale of nuclear fusion.

Well, the high cost of oil is only one of the contributing factors that pushing the US of A to 3rd World Status -- which it'll probably embrace within the next 20 years, and I don't think there will be the rioting in the streets that I've been predicting -- except by Blacks.