War profiteering

By Greg Palast:

In 1928, oil company chieftains (from Anglo-Persian Oil, now British Petroleum, from Standard Oil, now Exxon, and their Continental counterparts) were faced with a crisis: falling prices due to rising supplies of oil; the same crisis faced by their successors during the Clinton years, when oil traded at $22 a barrel.

The solution then, as now: stop the flow of oil, squeeze the market, raise the price. The method: put a red line around Iraq and declare that virtually all the oil under its sands would remain there, untapped. Their plan: choke supply, raise prices rise, boost profits. That was the program for 1928. For 2003. For 2008.

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In response, Senators Obama and Clinton propose something wrongly called a “windfall” profits tax on oil. But oil industry profits didn’t blow in on a breeze. It is war, not wind, that fills their coffers. The beastly leap in prices is nothing but war profiteering, hiking prices to take cruel advantage of oil fields shut by bullets and blood.

I wish to hell the Democrats would call their plan what it is: A war profiteering tax. War is profitable business – if you’re an oil man. But somehow, the public pays the price, at the pump and at the funerals, and the oil companies reap the benefits.

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Thing is, it's not enough just to demand that gasoline be cheaper and that those who profit so much be taxed for their greed. We need a whole new fucking system. We need a new way to fuel and power our cars and our homes. There's got to be a push for a fundamental change in how we get energy.

Search for "Nikola Tesla" on YouTube and check out some of the vidoes that come up. Seems like conspiracy theory stuff, I know, but some of them are really interesting. Long story short: FREE ENERGY.