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The Enslavement of America


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Despite high supplies and lower demands, gas prices continue to skyrocket. Lower income Americans spend nearly a quarter of their paycheck on gas. The oil companies report record profits, breaking the record profits of the past several years. Additionally, a full time working American works three months out of the year just to pay their taxes. Milk is up 17% in one year. Wages are steady to lower. Is the government tightening the noose? Are they preparing us for something bigger like martial law? Will we be so starved and poor that we will have no energy to resist? When is greed for the super rich going to be so bad that people finally resist?
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18 responses // The Enslavement of America

  • http://gasprices.mapquest.com/
    Now Mapquest can help you find the lowest price gas that is closest to you!
    woodywoodbeck
  • Gas and food prices are getting ridiculous. Something has to change, or we are heading for some very serious trouble.
    sgwhites
  • Yes, something has to change - the Busheney administration - flush the toilet on these oil people - edit: I decided I would lighten my rhetoric about them.
    VoyagerFilms
  • http://www.warbirdforum.com/hirodead.htm
    I hope gas prices continue to rise because that is the only way people will start paying serious attention to the sustainable energies future. If this change away from oil does not happen soon it really does not matter what the price of gas is. That is a trivial thing to be worried about in todays world. Wars will continue. Social injustice will continue. Animal, plant and Earth's health will continue to suffer. All of the energy we need is in the sun and wind. We can capture it without raping land and life. As the "Manhattan Project" gave rise to storing enough energy to destroy hundreds of thousands of people I am certain we can figure out a way to store energy for hundreds of thousands of people. Storage of energy is no longer about death. It is about peace.
    twodee
  • Owning a car continually proves to be more and more costly as time goes on. The adage has always been that cars depreciate in value the second you drive them off the lot, but it's become more than that these days.

    Not only do people pay a premium for their cars, they also have to deal with constant upkeep, maintenance, gas, insurance, and so on. I'm feeling more and more these days that they best answer, if one's situation can allow it, is to resort to public transportation whenever necessary.
    mario_a
  • Between taxes, rising gas, food and mortgage costs, and the crazy credit card debt American's are encouraged to get into, 99% of the country is in indentured servitude....
    AndreaKnoll
  • mario, that is a great point. Another option is that for the price of a new car you could put this on your house if you own a house. This is the 6kw system I put on my house. No vacation and no new car for us but it is very satisfying to know we are not feeding the monster oil and power companies.
    twodee
  • I agree, mario... people should drive slower and cut out all unnecessary use of their car. It's time to send a message. We need alternate energies now. Time for politicians to step up. Do we really need another Revolution?
    JanforGore
  • The rising cost of gas/oil has nothing to do with supply/demand....it has to do with investment on a global market and where the big bucks are going to be made in the future. Investors are banking on global growth and demand for oil, in the future (China) and betting they'll make a killing owning a piece of the oil market. thats whats driving up oil/gas prices. This is the closest I could find to the "real" cost of oil/gas:
    http://www.investmentu.net/ppc/t4oilcrude3.cfm?kw=X300H...

    In other words, oil doesn't actually COST $100 a barrel, the actualy cost is much, much lower. BUT, investors are willing to PAY $100+ a barrel because, do the math, that's a no brainer big bucks maker. Unfortunately, the majority of us aren't the big global spenders and are paying the price in the grocery store (the worst is yet to come) so these guys can drink martini's on their yachts on their way to Dubai.
    The only solution? Get off the oil. We have the brains and will and the manpower to create an alternative energy source thats actually environmentally friendly. Screw the car manufacturer's answers to green technology, they just want to stay in the game. We need to change the game. We need bold new technology, hydrolysis tehnology, that can be done given the initiative (which means the $ backing). Know anybody?
    anjela3
  • Get on your bikes, get exercise, feel better and save the planet all at once.

    Get the city governments to allocate space and even streets to bikes and pedestrians only. It'll become a new fad in America.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Also, we must realize the Busheney administration and Congress is allowing these people to speculate on oil for profit at the expense of the American people in the same manner Busheney's other old friend at Enron did to California a number of years back.

    Treason? You bet! The whole bunch of them.
    VoyagerFilms
  • http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/oct2006/amish2.jpg
    I just got off the phone with my sister who lives in a rural community, and she is thinking of getting a used Amish wagon. we spent some time visiting on skype and looking at the wagons listed on the web ads. Pretty cool looking. I laughed at her, but in all seriousness,, it would be pretty cool to go back to that, and I guess the big drawback is the horse you have to keep up to pull the wagon, but just think...horse will eat the grass, so no mowing the grass, maybe?

    I know it is far fetched, and isn't practical for city driving.....

    ........ but not much to keep up, other than the horse, grinning but pondering......
    queenofit
  • queenofit, that is a beautiful thing !
    twodee
  • Yes twodee, it is inviting in a romantic sort of way. I don't have much real experience in riding in a horse and buggy. Probably pretty rough, but the Amish and "some Mennonite orders" still use horse and buggies today.

    For instance, about 100 years ago, the primary mode of transportation was the horse, so Mennonite Orders that developed during that time still use buggies, that does not mean all Mennonites still use that mode of transportation.

    However, in communities where there are larger populations of Amish or Mennonites, community amenities have been made, such as buggy parking at Patchworks in Dayton, VA and Super Wal-mart in Harrisonburg, Virginia"

    Now that is is pretty cool as well.

    "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire", says, when people ask
    for "solutions", they fundamentally don't want an answer because an
    honest answer will require them to change everything about their lives
    down to their toenails.

    As time goes on the real winners will be the ones able to "think outside the box" and let go of ego~

    just my humble view...
    queenofit
  • http://current.com/items/88862004_oprah_with_eckhart_to...
    queenofit,
    you sound like someone who would take to this. I bet you are already reading his work and catching these talks.
    twodee
  • twodee,

    Lets just say I am definitely on the path. As far as this link, I did sign up for it, and I even created a blog on her site. I need to get back to that, (I tend to get so scattered). But as for spirituality, finding that peaceful inner source inside of us, that is what I have found that keeps me sane. I am sane,,, I think~~ grinning! Thanks!
    queenofit
  • I like my car and I like driving it. As prices rise, I just determine to make more money so I can continue to afford such activities. This viewpoint seems to run contrary to the message of this thread but personally, I prefer not to succumb to defeat.
    clay59
  • Yeah, Clay. The more money we make the faster we can rape and pillage the planet.

    I had a dream.

    Well, it actually started out as a nightmare,

    I dreamed we had been invaded by 10 foot tall extra terrestrial beings from another galaxy.

    The first thing one of the leaders of the alien ship did was to devour an Earthling sitting in a Hummer. He just yanked the poor guy out through the window.

    His voracious appetite was not satiated and he plucked a local politician off his soapbox and dispatched him in the same way.

    Two people just gobbled up alive right before my eyes!

    It got worse.

    He turned and looked at me next and smiled.

    I was petrified and couldn't move.

    Next, it was apparent he could read my mind and he new I was thinking he was going to make me his next victim.

    He laughed and said, "Don't worry, my friend. You'll love having us here. We only eat Republicans and we only pee petroleum."

    I was so happy it woke me up but as soon as I realized it was a dream I got all depressed again.
    Inofuilwell

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