I have been thinking about this for about a month now (as I roll all those lovely high gas prices around inside my melon), and I think I got it figured out. At least it makes me feel a little better about our government, and gives me some hope that the Bush administration is not totally inept.
Okay, here goes:
1. The World needs more oil than ever before, the demand will always be increasing as the finite oil supply decreases. That in itself should raise oil prices.
2. The Middle East is rapidly approaching a Peak Oil phenomena that will begin an energy crisis. http://www.ameinfo.com/146155.html
3. The United States has been keeping their large oil reserves top secret and are only now beginning to slowly reveal their existence.
4. Higher Oil prices force Americans to have to invest their money into alternative vehicles, of which the market will be flooded with this new technology and will be made available to the general public via used alternative vehicles.
5. America will get off of oil using automobiles almost entirely, while we still have vast oil reserves stored away. Of which are far from being peaked out, because we haven't really tapped into them yet.
6. The United States government knows where every single oil reserve is hidden on the planet via new satellite technology, and it knows that the Midwest has more oil under it than the whole of the Middle East (For example: What do you find along with oil reserves? Shale rock and Dinosaur fossils. What state has one of the largest archeological sites with Dinosaur fossils AND Shale? South Dakota Badlands, of which their is an immense amount of oil hidden under neath.)
7. USA has been waiting for the Peak Oil crisis so that it can secure future resources for future generations of Americans.
8. Meanwhile, the US will have weened us all off of oil burning autos and we can sell our resources to other countries demanding oil!
9. As Saudi Arabia had a windfall of profits during their rein as Oil Lords, now the shoe will be placed on the other foot.
10. America will be the main provider of Hydro Carbon resource for not only autos (of which more and more will shift over to alternative fuel sources), but for plastics and industrial chemicals.
So, DaGip is not all doom and gloom about the situation that we are in, I think I am understanding the whole scenario, but why not just come clean with this to us? They would get much more public support, wouldn't you think?
PS--expect to start paying more for electronics and computes soon, and then when the game play draws to a close, all those prices will shoot way down, except perhaps gas prices, I think they will remain high as a incentive for US citizens to get off the gas vehicles--will probably have an environmental stint to it.
