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I wonder if the government started turning hobos into gasoline, Soylent Green-style, in order to combat rising gas prices, if America as a whole would accept the fact the prices were dropping, without questioning why? Soylent Green relied on a similar concept, that people wouldn't question a good thing (The Matrix utilized quite the opposite concept, but that's another story completely).
Gas prices are dropping. Fast. Really fast. It resembles a sort of "Black Tuesday" for the oil industry, at least on paper. Profits ae suddenly falling, which should be sending them into mass panic (things have been...beyond stellar until now). But it's not, and their simply biding their time. It's a conspiracy, same as it was in 2004, just more drastic.
People are noticing. The question is, exactly how many? How many will credit the Republicans with dropping prices, prices that have risen to record levels in the past few years, and reelect them? Do people really have that short of attention spans? Gas prices were well over $3.00 a month or two ago, but once polls starting showing there was a drastic drop in prices, as that seemed to be the primary bone of contention (never mind the war in Iraq or wiretapping, we were mostly worried about spending $50.00 at the gas pump).
So we could have Soylent Gas, and so long as it was cheap, who would care? As long as everything keeps rolling along.
(Of course, I could be proven completely wrong, and gas prices could stay down, or Libertarians might sweep the house, or Soylent Green might not really be people after all. But...I kinda doubt any of those.)
In the end, it's just another reason somebody has to save this world. And that somebody may just be me...
Gas prices are dropping. Fast. Really fast. It resembles a sort of "Black Tuesday" for the oil industry, at least on paper. Profits ae suddenly falling, which should be sending them into mass panic (things have been...beyond stellar until now). But it's not, and their simply biding their time. It's a conspiracy, same as it was in 2004, just more drastic.
People are noticing. The question is, exactly how many? How many will credit the Republicans with dropping prices, prices that have risen to record levels in the past few years, and reelect them? Do people really have that short of attention spans? Gas prices were well over $3.00 a month or two ago, but once polls starting showing there was a drastic drop in prices, as that seemed to be the primary bone of contention (never mind the war in Iraq or wiretapping, we were mostly worried about spending $50.00 at the gas pump).
So we could have Soylent Gas, and so long as it was cheap, who would care? As long as everything keeps rolling along.
(Of course, I could be proven completely wrong, and gas prices could stay down, or Libertarians might sweep the house, or Soylent Green might not really be people after all. But...I kinda doubt any of those.)
In the end, it's just another reason somebody has to save this world. And that somebody may just be me...