The Gas Bubble

The .com bubble. The housing bubble. The credit bubble. Then what? Only the G-A-S BUBBLE. The gas bubble you say? What’s that? Is it a huge inflated pool of obnoxious gas floating in the atmosphere burrowing its way through the ozone layer at the South Pole? The gas bubble? Is it acid indigestion? Will Pepcid AC treat it? Is it a noisome flatulent cloud of evil looming over the future of the United States? The gas bubble. When will it burst? It seems Congress has made one of its first wise decisions in the Iraq war. “Should Iraqi oil money, the money that W has been after all this time, be used to rebuild their own country?” Isn’t it appropriate that a country rich in oil assets use its own money for its own well being? Aside from excusing that we, the United States, systematically destroyed the political and therefore social stability of their country, why not use their money? Unless we were imperializing said country with plans to make them territories of the United States like St. Thomas or Puerto Rico, following the model of Hiroshima and Nagosaki during World War ll, it should be our plan to “charge” Iraq to rebuild their country. It is opportunism at its best, and Dick Cheney was right there handing out contracts. Isn’t spending a billion dollars a month on the war enough? We are pouring money down a giant drain with no prize at the end. Why should we spend more of our money to finance a FOREIGN country. How about our own country? Deteriorating roads, schools, and an economy seem to merit financial attention domestically. Who made this decision, that we were going to systematically destroy a country under the ruse of “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” and then spend billions of U.S. tax dollars cleaning up our own mess? Blasphemy. At least Congress made a lucid observation. “What is happening to all that oil money.” It seems the tables have turned and the United States has become the butt of one of the worse jokes in her history. We are being heckled at the gas pump for an ill-conceived war covertly meant to take just what is making fun of us. We are losing on two fronts, on the Iraqi front and at home. How much more humiliation should we take before we concede it was all a greedy mistake? Weapons of Mass Destruction. I guess W. miscalculated if he thought we would march in and be the saviors of an newly born democracy, purchasing their oil for our own domestic consumption. It seems as with Viet Nam, it is difficult to defeat native people on their native land. They like to hide in tunnels underneath rural farmer’s homes. Who knew the gas bubble could bring so much grief and heartache to the soul of America? Who knew this liquid could liquidate the spirit of the Founding Fathers, all but demolishing spiritual and philosophical reasons to live restrained yet free lives? There are other forms of transportation not reliant upon the internal combustion engine, but past Vice President Al Gore was held in contempt for suggesting the automobile may and should go out of vogue. Do we want to continue to worship the graven image of the automobile? I think not.