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A number of years ago I saw a movie called "Tank Girl." The bad guys controlled all the "POWER and WATER." It was up to a few to free the subserviant population so all could have access to life itself without paying the arbitrary fee set by those in control. The use of certain death to any that opposed this fee was a potent weapon. Is this where the capitalist giants are herding us? Are we headed to a world without options?

I have been kind of, distractedly, looking and I am noticing how everyone fixates on gasoline prices and shortages and the effects thereof. Gasoline is pretty easy to make substitutions for: buses, carpools, bikes, walking, telecommuting. There is also biodiesel, natural gas and methane. Nobody seems to have thought about plastic or fertilizer. We live in a plastic society and it all starts with oil. Without plastic the whole economy comes screeching to a halt. When plastic prices rise so does the price of everything else. Without fertilizer we starve to death.

Refined gasoline is a low margin business for refiners so the majority of US oil production and imports go to plastic. A much smaller percentage goes to gasoline production. In fact, more than forty percent of US gasoline consumption is now imported gasoline from foreign refineries, mostly in the Carribean. The situation is even more so in Europe where a majority of their gasoline is from overseas refineries.

I supose one can think of many alternate types of fuels to BURN, but it is the oxidation process itself that creates the largest detrament to our survival as it robs us of the thing that we need to perpetuate our existance. Economics is the least of our worries, although our future can be dramaticly shortened by a shortsited belief in it as our savior or continue to allow the destruction of life giving natural resources in the pursuit of wealth. Oil is just the cheapest (untill someones control of it becomes absolute) substance to use for many things and reasons. The things we make from petoleum produce even worse byproducts when burned than gasoline. Would anyone like breathe some car or factory exhaust with me!