Saturday, January 3, 2009
Time for the Green Party to out-poll Democrats and Republicans
Greens are like guides in the trek toward sustainable culture, in the same way the Shamans who lived on the edge of the Native American tribes managed the relationships between social and spirit realms. Intertwined meltdowns of polar ice caps and the global economy present opportunities for Green politics to replace Democrat-Republican corporatism. read more
Big Oil's bottom-feeding with low gas prices
Gas prices are as low as they can be - even in these current times of simultaneous but contradictory states of deflation and sky-high prices for goods and services tied to our oil-based economic engine. The ever-faster accelerating cost-of-living spikes will continue due to an unprecedented global demand for oil, an overvalued U.S. currency that continues to be devalued, a growing 59.3 trillion dollar U.S. debt, and an emerging era of declining new oil finds within the oil-bubble of post-peak oil. Economists are now forecasting a world market price at $500 or even $1000 per barrel of oil. If times are tough now, just wait until Exxon-Mobil throws up obstacles to prevent the oil-based economy from transitioning to a 100% renewable energy resource-based economy anchored with green-collar jobs. And human society only has about 78 months left before unfettered desertification and runaway climate shift from unshackled global warming pass all tipping points causing mega-catastrophe one following another - liken it to a Katrina disaster 24/7.
The true cost of a gallon of gasoline does not factor in the costs bringing oil to wellhead, transporting, refining, storage, distributing, groundwater and environmental contamination, superfund cleanup, disposal and recycling. Massive government subsidies (much akin to big agriculture feeding at the public trough with the recently passed Farm Subsidy Bill) hide the actual, far higher cost. Market forces are resisted by corporate overlords who write legislation (favoring the corporate author) to become beneficiaries of and profiteers from windfall gains from buying an even number of democrat and republican legislators who in turn, in election after election continue to sway the electorate to vote against people's own self interest by democrat-republicans propagating the big lie of low prices. Only now the corporate true nature is peeking through with the out-of-control, no-end-in sight accelerating energy, fuel, food and all products tied to the oil-based economy. Prices have been kept artificially and fraudulently low by corporate welfare doled out by government to corporations masquerading behind a corporate person-hood - mistakenly perceived as having been given the constitutional "right" by the Federal Judiciary. "We, the people" must see that the government ceases representing "We, the corporation."
That's Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Agri-business, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Power, Wall Street forcing their strangle-hold profiteeering on the public, forcing a race to the bottom, economically, socially, and in terms of environmental justice and workplace safety, forcing out-migration in countries where farmers cannot eke out a living on even subsistence farming let alone the indigenous economy from selling the small surplus. So we know that public policy does not represent values that families hold close around the world and it is that wrong public policy which has created an immigration crisis and fueled the xenophobic, vigilante outrage. The same folks who tries to convince you with low prices also sell the illusion of a competitive marketplace at work. We know of (and might define ourselves as) the working poor, those who have permanently dropped off unemployment and ceased being counted. We would be surprised to see the true, actual high level of non-productivity defining the once empire-grade U.S. economy.
By maintaining a deceptively low gasoline price, Big Oil and Big every other corporate megalith are attempting to continue collectively killing off adoptions of Green technologies that would have allowed an earlier, economically easier, less economically-painful transition to a renewable energy resource-based economy that in that process has given Big Oil the false argument to point to higher costs as impediments of going to a solar-based green collar economy. Technologies already developed today which are sitting on the shelf, if applied and built would supply a 100% renewable energy resource-based economy - completely weaned off oil.
So whether its the Progressive Bag Affiliates, the Plastics Council, the American Chemical Society, payola politicians, would-be big dam building governerators, there is no free plastic, there is no low-cost gasoline, or summer fruit in winter, every product has a cradle-to-cradle, carbon-footprint cost and the corporate welfare crippling our marketplace of trade and ingenuity must be halted.
The true cost of a gallon of gasoline does not factor in the costs bringing oil to wellhead, transporting, refining, storage, distributing, groundwater and environmental contamination, superfund cleanup, disposal and recycling. Massive government subsidies (much akin to big agriculture feeding at the public trough with the recently passed Farm Subsidy Bill) hide the actual, far higher cost. Market forces are resisted by corporate overlords who write legislation (favoring the corporate author) to become beneficiaries of and profiteers from windfall gains from buying an even number of democrat and republican legislators who in turn, in election after election continue to sway the electorate to vote against people's own self interest by democrat-republicans propagating the big lie of low prices. Only now the corporate true nature is peeking through with the out-of-control, no-end-in sight accelerating energy, fuel, food and all products tied to the oil-based economy. Prices have been kept artificially and fraudulently low by corporate welfare doled out by government to corporations masquerading behind a corporate person-hood - mistakenly perceived as having been given the constitutional "right" by the Federal Judiciary. "We, the people" must see that the government ceases representing "We, the corporation."
That's Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Agri-business, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Power, Wall Street forcing their strangle-hold profiteeering on the public, forcing a race to the bottom, economically, socially, and in terms of environmental justice and workplace safety, forcing out-migration in countries where farmers cannot eke out a living on even subsistence farming let alone the indigenous economy from selling the small surplus. So we know that public policy does not represent values that families hold close around the world and it is that wrong public policy which has created an immigration crisis and fueled the xenophobic, vigilante outrage. The same folks who tries to convince you with low prices also sell the illusion of a competitive marketplace at work. We know of (and might define ourselves as) the working poor, those who have permanently dropped off unemployment and ceased being counted. We would be surprised to see the true, actual high level of non-productivity defining the once empire-grade U.S. economy.
By maintaining a deceptively low gasoline price, Big Oil and Big every other corporate megalith are attempting to continue collectively killing off adoptions of Green technologies that would have allowed an earlier, economically easier, less economically-painful transition to a renewable energy resource-based economy that in that process has given Big Oil the false argument to point to higher costs as impediments of going to a solar-based green collar economy. Technologies already developed today which are sitting on the shelf, if applied and built would supply a 100% renewable energy resource-based economy - completely weaned off oil.
So whether its the Progressive Bag Affiliates, the Plastics Council, the American Chemical Society, payola politicians, would-be big dam building governerators, there is no free plastic, there is no low-cost gasoline, or summer fruit in winter, every product has a cradle-to-cradle, carbon-footprint cost and the corporate welfare crippling our marketplace of trade and ingenuity must be halted.
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