To: calgal who wrote (53009 ) 7/20/2012 12:57:16 PM From: calgal Respond to One year ago this week, I wrote a column titled "Crude Cruelty," which covered a jump in the cost of motor fuel and a corresponding spike in prices for food and rising unemployment. Government "experts" attributed the bad news to "supply disruptions" and "uncertainty" caused by unrest in Libya. Today Moammar Gadhafi is gone, but the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $3.79 -- up 27 cents from a year ago. Unsurprisingly, mortgage defaults are up 22 percent, and orders for durable goods -- cars, appliances, machinery and aircraft -- are down. Our anemic economic recovery is being threatened. Gasoline prices are expected to top $4 per gallon by this summer.None of this is good news for the incumbent in a presidential election year. So now, in an alternative version of college basketball's "March Madness," the Obama propaganda machine is on the hunt for someone to blame. It's not OPEC, the cartel that controls nearly 80 percent of the known oil on earth and is now headed by an Iranian. Nope, we are to blame. We're just not doing enough to reduce our need to get to work, feed our families, light our homes and cut consumption.
