Oil Dependence

The current President an oil man said we’re addicted to oil. Even president elect Obama mentioned this “oil addiction”. The oil companies have made us dependent upon their oil for the ability to support ourselves.

In the 1700’s the British East India Trading Company turned many of the Chinese people into opium addicts so they’d have guaranteed customers for their opium.

According to award winning journalist Steve Coll in his book “The Bin Laden’s; An Arabian Family in the American Century” in the 1930's America said “Saudi oil is firmly in American hands”.

It’s not the addiction to oil that is the problem, it’s the oil companies’ whose addiction to power and wealth have a stranglehold on us. If not we’d have more accessible public transportation, more fuel efficient vehicles and alternative energy sources for starters.

We don’t see much in the way of research and development to get us off this “oil addiction” but we see record breaking profits for oil companies. Not only that, the tax payer is pouring twenty five billion into Ford to come up with more fuel efficient cars. What type of reasonable person could or would expect a company to design something that will reduce their profits? It’s an idea so illogical it’s astounding.

Time and time again America has proven that necessity is the mother of invention. The United States is smart enough to have come up with a multitude of alternatives by now. Where are they? Whatever happened to the guy that designed the 200 MPG carburetor?

Maybe with the pushers and dealers out of the White House, there is a chance we can get the oil monkey off our backs.