August 13, 2005

$67 A Barrel!

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- It's been a month since I last wrote something on here. And today, finally, I have something to bitch about.

One barrel of crude oil now sells for just less than $67 a barrel.

One.

Not two. One. Used to be two. Not anymore. Now it's just one barrel for that much.

No shit.

But didn't the administration just pass an energy bill? Didn't they just funnel a shitload of money to energy companies to try and find alternative energy sources to fossil fuels? Doesn't make a damn difference if the executive couldn't care less about our daily expenses to live.

Can you believe it's reached 67-motherfucking-dollars a barrel?

The President still sits in his Crawford, Texas, ranch on five weeks of vacation. Oh, sure he broke away and signed a highway bill. But what was that, a morning? An afternoon? He was probably gone from Texas about four hours. Six tops.

Then back to the leisure activities of slicing golf balls and taking power tools to helpless logs dressed up like the fake cowboy he wants to be.

I feel gouged. Price gouged every time I drive up to the pump. I'm feeling politically raped right about now. Billions of dollars going to fund a war that's full of shit (author's note: I hope every one of those service members comes home safely to his or her family, and given the chance I'd step up to the line right next to them to see that it happened), money cut from the Veterans Administration, money cut from Pell Grants, and I'm sure a lot more social projects cut from the budget hell bent on getting every stinking dollar into the pockets of Halliburton and Kellog, Brown and Root.

But $67. I want to hurl.

- Rich