Perhaps There Is A Silver Lining...

There has only been one, truly big news story for the past three weeks... The price of oil hitting $140 per barrel & gasoline skyrocketing past $4.00 per gallon. This has been very unnerving to people everywhere, and some have even described their concern as "fear". Now, although not having a good idea how high these prices will go can be disconcerting, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the thought of describing the current situation as fearful. That not withstanding, there is absolutely no doubt that the public is pretty torqued! And the FOCHs (Fools On Capital Hill) have heard the hue & cry of the folks back home and promptly subpoenaed the CEOs of the evil oil companies to answer for their criminal, predatory pricing practices. (Thank, God, that Big Brother is watching out for us!) And what did we learn from these hearings? We all learned just how ignorant & incompetent those FOCHs truly are! And in the process the FOCHs learned a lesson that most of us were taught as children... Whenever you point a finger at someone assigning blame, there are three fingers pointing back at you!

Then all Hell started breaking loose as the truth started sinking into our corporate minds. The blame of rising oil & fuel prices isn't the fault of the evil oil companies... The blame lies with Congress! In other words, we the people have been FOCH'd! No drilling in ANWR... No drilling off the continental shelf on either coast (Although the FOCHs don't seem to have any problem with the Chinese & Cubans doing same off Florida)... No new refineries in the past 35 years... No new nuclear power plants. NO! Nothing allowed that might facilitate energy independence within ten years... OH, NO-O-O!!! We can't have any of that now, can we? No, absolutely not! It's much more important that we send billions of dollars each and every day to Muslim terrorist states in the middle east, and to psychotic dictators and corrupt politicians in South America and Mexico!

So, back to the title statement... "Perhaps There Is A Silver Lining..." And that silver lining is this: Polling data out this week overwhelmingly shows that Americans want to drill here... drill now... and are no longer willing to let whiny, emotional, mentally-malformed environmental crybabies rule the day! We want to take OUR oil out of OUR ground & off of OUR coastlines... Refine it HERE... Keep OUR money HERE AT HOME... And to quit funding terrorist states and hostile foreign governments!

Perhaps there is a silver lining... But if we all don't take action, that silver lining will probably only turnout to be Fool's Gold!