Fuck that Black Gold, Find An Alternative. NOW PLEASE!

Oil Derrick
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Gas prices keep creeping up,
Today in CNN.com, there is an article about
On Why People Shouldn't Buy Hybrid Cars written by obviously the most-short sighted, in-the-pocket-of-big-oil dumb-ass that I can think of. The so-called reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN/Money staff writer is up here asking you as Americans (or anybody on the planet) to save your hard-earned money and find some sort of alternative.

You know what? Fuck your money! 'Cause if we as a PLANET don't wean ourselves off of petroleum as an energy source and means of transportation, we're fucked in the short-run (in the long run chaos on the order of The Road Warrior will ensue).


Shit-for-brains Valdes-Dapena would have you believe that you need to save you dollars on the vehicle that you intend to purchase. He's not factoring in higher prices for food, energy, and ALL THINGS PLASTIC (which is just about every goddamn thing in your house) because as the price of oil rises, what ever uses oil -- not just gasoline prices -- begins to increase.

It's far easier to get people off of gasoline than it is of plastic (incidently: the Feds need to pass a law that incurs jail time and heavy fines for anyone not recycling glass and plastic).

Don't be fooled, get a hyrbid car. And then petition your government representatives -- at all levels (state, local and federal) to dump more money into alternative energy Research & Development. As it stands now, each year only about US$65million is spent on alternative fuel/energy R&D. Guess how much on oil R&D? US$2billion!!! That money is being thrown away -- the resource is limited and dwindling.

FIND SOMETHING NEW AMERICA! EUROPEAN UNION! CHINA! INDIA! You muthafuckas claim that you have top-notch scientists (especially India and China), come up with something new. The socio-geo-political upheveals from a rude severing from oil dependance is unthinkable -- imagine the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE (in the 1st World Economies, the 3rd World knows how to exisit with limited resources).

I was reading an article in Esquire (the one with super-fucking hot Keira Knightley on the cover
)
about the end of oil, and the Saudi Energy Minister made this statement, "My father rode a camel, I ride a car, my son rides a jetplane, his son will ride a camel."

THINK ABOUT THAT. SERIOUSLY.

I'm out.
Ramses (email me at obfusc8@hotmail.com if you got something to smart to say, or even if you don't, but have something to say. Isn't the internet all about two-way communication?).