If you drive a car daily, you must know that the war in Iraq has been performed especially for you (surely there’s corporate profit involved, but that profit wouldn’t be possible without your ignorant help). This war is starting to cover some of those expenses. It is the long worked-for solution to correct back the nationalization of oil industry in Iraq in 1972, which only helped at the previous oil crisis. However, this war’s “benefits” won’t enter in your pocket, they will only allow you to pay and drive happily a little more. That’s why Iran’s next in line, so you can drive.

All being said and done, what bothers me is the deep ignorance my car-driving fellow citizens live in: I’ve seen no authentic effort to replace our unnecessary oil-consuming activities with some others, based on renewable resources, maybe reading the oilcrisis.com website might help some future policy makers in making the choice. I think the most-renewable resource is the sun, then the nuclear power, then the wind, here and there, everything else seems to me a replacing a scarce resource with another scarce resource, but, well, who cares; anyway, if these fake replacements bring profits for some, they will happen one after the other, that’s what the free market says.

By the way, reading the wikipedia entry on the oil crisis subject, I am pleasantly surprised that the percentage economy (humanist economy) I was talking about earlier is relevant (the dollar has been taken off the Gold Exchange Standard two years before the ‘73 oil crisis, and other currencies followed, therefore there was no equivalent effort for buying and selling, so the OPEC economies started pricing the oil in gold…).

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