And now for our "EH?" of the day!

It is being reported today that gasoline prices, after a bumpy decline of a few weeks, are on the rise again starting May 30th, just at the start of the busy holiday season.

The reason? The powers that be have decided that Americans will be traveling LESS this summer. Well, we might just be! This is exactly what they WANT. So we don't see or talk to our familes and friends and raise our levels of discontent. Traveling will require gasoline, we all know this. Of COURSE we're going to travel less this summer! With gas prices set to top off at $4.00 per gallon, who in their right minds WOULD be out and about?

Let's think about this a minute, shall we? First, over the past month, there have been several National Public holidays in China, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and obviously a few here in the Un-tied States. So gas prices supposedly went down, because less people were traveling and sticking around their homes to be with loved ones. (because supposedly people use less gasoline during a holiday, according to those idiots again.)

Gas prices are also predicted to rise because Alan Greenspan, who just doesn't know anything really, and relies on the "dazzle them with B.S. and confuse them with numbers" speeches, has been vague about everything, yet keeps a slightly cautious optimistic view leaning towards "I don't know". Other analysts like good old Barclay say the price will shoot up past $60 per barrel this summer, while Goldman Sachs is calling for $105.00 per barrel of oil this winter. Whew! You thought your heating bill was outrageous this last winter? Picture it tripled!

Now let's look at George W. Bush's take on the matter. He must have been partying a bit too hard with Rupert "Fox" Murdoch to believe his wild claim that "if ya attack Iraq, oil will drop to $20 a barrel forever, mate!" So maybe his idea is to bomb Iran next to try and get the price to drop again. We've already seen signs of unrest there; we've read reports of nuclear activities (although it's weird we're hearing about them NOW, isn't it?), so who knows? Maybe we're due for a September Storm and Iran will be next to fall.

But economists warn then that if this fantastically stupid scenario plays out, oil will actually spike even higher upwards, some say near $385 per barrel. Shudder to think about what that would mean. At least $12.00 per gallon of gas, possibly another Great Depression as numerous, uncountable jobs are lost and the stocks tank to nearly zero.

And let's make you worry just a little bit more. Let's say it's winter, you're freezing in your house, and you beg the bank manager for a loan to cover that astronomical heating bill.

*BONGGGGG*

With the new bankruptcy laws that have just been introduced through the banks, they have one answer for you. FORECLOSURE, baby! And they can take EVERYTHING now. Your car, your house, even garnish your wages. Because banks are hurting too, folks. Why do you think the bankruptcy laws were changed? Because too many people were asking for it, duh!

So, what's the point of all this? What are we really trying to say?

We need to stop depending on oil. Period. We need to essentially "rock the Casbah" as the Clash so adamantly stated back in the 80s. We need to stop cow-towing to the Arab sheiks who have us sucking at their oiled teats, because they already own 8% of our country, ladies and gentlemen. If the price of gas continues to go up, how much more begging are we going to have to do from OPEC? And at what price? :-(

"Okay, we'll drop the price of oil down to $20. In exchange, we get to ram a 747 jet into the Sears Tower..."

And Bush's response?

"Make it so..."

...The Scribes...