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Gas to Hit $5 A Gallon and Higher! You Better Believe It Will, and Here’s Why.
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You remember Enron ... don’t you? Do you remember what they did?
Are you sure?
Let me refresh your memory and maybe straighten out a few things.
Enron not only screwed their employees out of their livelihood, their retirement, everything they owned, and forced most of them into the unemployment and bread lines; they also manipulated the Energy Market and drove up the cost of electricity on the west coast by an estimated 300 percent ... not a typo, three hundred percent ... robbing Californians blind in the process. I’ve included an article from TIME dated May 2002. You can read the whole thing here if you like, (and you should) but following is an excerpt to whet your whistle.
"When Federal regulators last week released internal memos that showed how Enron squeezed cash out of energy-hungry California, it was hard not to notice how many of the energy traders' secret strategies borrowed names from the state's most famous products. Hollywood was saluted with Get Shorty and Ricochet, while Marin County's George Lucas got a nod with Death Star. Some of the schemes operated in a manner that many Californians found disturbingly familiar: Enron made money hawking electrons that didn't exist. That's a business plan some former dotcom millionaires can remember well.”
What? Electrons that didn’t exist? How is that possible?
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Simple. They lied! It’s the ol’ shell game on steroids (sorry, please excuse the cliché’). Do yourself a HUGE favor and listen to this On-Air interview from WTOP, dated June 5, 2008. The guest speaker is Professor Michael Greenberger from the Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland. You don’t have to know anything about the Stock Market, or the Futures Market, to get what he’s saying.
Greenberger Interview. (I apologize, but I could not embed the MP3. Please follow the link, press Play, and come back. I ask you to please ignore the stinking commercial.)
So, now that you’ve heard what is REALLY driving the price of gas through the roof, is there something you can you do something about it?
You betcha!
Like the man said, write, call, email, Western Union, Pony Express, threaten, coerce, bribe, or strong-arm your Senators, Congressmen, and Congresswomen. THEY, represent YOU! And if they don’t do what you ask them to, vote the bums out! It’s the only weapon we have, but it’s the only weapon we need. Let these career politicians know they’re not really the American Royalty they fancy themselves to be. They’re just “public servants.” That’s how they refer to themselves, but not how they think of themselves. WE control this country, and I think we’ve forgotten that. If you don’t want to go to the poorhouse on your way to work, you had better speak up. I know ... it’s tough. We’re too busy working (some of us, two jobs) to sit down and write letters or emails. So I’m going to help. Click on the links below
Write your Congressman. Just find your state (look for the abbreviation) and click on the link.
The same goes for your House Representative. If you don’t know what District you’re in, write ‘em all! Don’t pay attention to all their self-promoting crap! Stick with the subject.
So this is your chance to get it off your chest. The above links make it easy. Now, it's completely up to you.
Topics: The Price of Gas
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