Yeah man! Gas prices, higher, higher, higher.
I’m lovin’ it!
The higher the better!
What this will do is cause
more Americans to cease being mass consumption glutinous hogs, and will
ultimately help to save the North Pole from melting.
Let me explain. I
know full well this will result in my branding as a left-wing traitor by right
wing mass consuming racist nuts (I’m actually a former conservative who left the
Republican Party because of their lying and cheating and lack of morality).
You might also try and call me a “negativist" who enjoys the misfortune
of others. I on the other hand view myself as a “positivist," a person who can
see great possibilities in supposed dire situations.
Oh, I almost
forgot. Gas prices may also help Americans to reclaim the lost soul of their
country, a country evolved into greed, of feeling superior to other less
abundant countries because of our material possessions, and our frequent
purchase of “things."
Let’s say you’re a typical greedy fat upper middle
class guy who buys a new car every year because you discard the old car like a
toy you’ve suddenly grown tired of, and you currently drive a huge, gas guzzling
four-wheel-drive Hummer, a vehicle as big as the German tank that invaded Poland
in World War Two. You smoke cigarettes and discard the butts. You carelessly
toss trash at the beach and eat rich calorie-laden junk food like a hog at a
trough. You have a three-story house that burns more energy than the entire
consumption of Nigeria (that’s a country in Africa for those of you right
wingers who are mad at this piece).
You’re a gas guzzling hog.
Rising prices huh? You can’t afford to be a pig anymore like two years
ago. You have to actually put yourself on a budget. To conserve. The C word. Not
the C word. Not that! Oh the pain of it.
You drive less, which causes
less freeway congestion and less greenhouse emission melting the Polar Icecap
(our natural air conditioning down here). You’re forced to cancel that automatic
yearly Hawaiian vacation which in turn puts less pollution pressure there.
The irony here is, and it’s a supreme irony, is you’re forced into
becoming a conservationist kicking and screaming even though you don’t like it
by the very same people who made you an oil addict in the first place…..the oil
companies and their secret cartels and their Saudi Arabian robber barons and
their Washington lobbyists.
You’re forced to cut back on your lavish
lifestyle you hog. To you, more is always better. The things you purchase make
you feel worthy, temporarily, until you have to buy more things, and the money.
There’s never enough, even though you have more than you need.
Right
now, there’s a Chinaman who used to ride a bike in Beijing, but who now drives a
car. He also wants to be a glutinous hog like you.
In fairness, I drive
a car, though I’ve always left personally a very small ecologic footprint. I
seldom buy anything. You might describe my lifestyle as that of an “esthete," or
“Spartan," or “Ghandiesk." For those of you right wing haters who never read a
book, Mahatmas Gandhi was an Indian leader who stressed morality and restraint.
All I can say to those to whom any form of idealism and not just
thinking only of themselves is real hell……welcome to my world.
Some
people will lose their jobs because of oil prices, but they were probably jobs
centered around addiction to oil which was wrong in the first place. Jobs can be
retooled to meet the new demand for conservation and ecologically friendly
living.
Rising oil prices will force Americans to seek alternative
travel, mass transit, fuel efficient and hybrid and eventually electric cars,
which will improve air quality and slow global warming. It will also teach you,
the glutinous hog, that the world isn’t your private oyster to be abused any way
you see fit. That every little you thing you do has an impact. Ultimately, it
will also force you to become more humane, more aware of others who are less
fortunate.
Being forced to walk a little more may help stall that heart
attack you the hog are now working towards.
Rising oil prices will also
help end the economic-political strangle hold the Saudis and others have over us
because we won’t need their oil. It will end their outsourced power and put them
in their proper place among the community of nations.
I’m lovin’ it!
I hope gas goes up to $10 a gallon.
Like we used to yell at the
football game, “hit ‘em again, hit ‘em again..harder…harder!"
» left by Robert Melaccio, Sr.(6,317) Robert Melaccio, Sr. (139 days 20 hours ago.)
Yes good thoughts that we should all consider. However, I offer this as well. We have been indoctrinated as a society that more is better. To succeed at any cost and we urge our young to achieve the very best. That is the foundation of our nations growth. Now to gain material goods or wealth is of itself not bad. It is when it becomes greed and obsession. Even the bible states that God wants us to prosper. So it is in the works, what is done and what is not and what one does with their wealth, position, power, goods and how they view them that there is conflict. No many need little to nothing to be happy. Theya re the rare, the few. Howevr, that does not make everyone else bad. Not all, just the greedy, the takers, the exploiters of others, the creators of misery. Good job, keep writing. Respond to this comment
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