SESSION 7: TEXT 1 FOR WEDNESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER

SESSION 7: TEXT 1 FOR WEDNESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER

WAR FOR OIL

Text taken from POEMSBYTOM

To hear the text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-kN69e8i4

TRANSCRIPT:

Stupid! Stupid!

The fact that we are fighting a war for oil in the first place just shows how greedy some people are. We have known for fifty or even a hundred, maybe hundreds of years that oil is a fixed resource. It is non-renewable. There is only so much of it. Any math person with a calculator should be able to take the world consumption levels of oil and mutliply it by population and divide by the square root of Mobil plus Exon and realize that we have X amount of years before there is no more oil. Well, it is within our lifetime. We have had at least fifty years notice. Yet our entire freaking world economy is somehow or other dependent on something made from oil. What is it? Six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon? Bacon...hmmm....bacon has grease....grease is kinda like oil....I wonder.....nevermind...I digress. But rather than focus on alternative energy resources fifty years ago it seems as if we are just doing it now. This is an over simplification.. but we built up our military so that we could conquer and steal oil NOW rather than use that funding that went into the military to develop alternatives to oil 50 years ago so that BY NOW we'd be off oil and wouldn't need to fight for it...I think that sums it up. That's a dumb plan don'tcha think ? How great of shape would America be in right now if we weren't oil dependent and we could relax. Let other countries blow themselves to bits because they didn't have any logical forsight... But alas...some people are making lots of money off of oil dependency. And war also creates a lot of wealth for certain segments of society. For people who need things spelled out for them... this whole war for oil thing is going to get worse before it gets better. What you see now is just the tip of the iceberg. No oil means that the manufacturing of food is in big trouble. The United States might have a big gun and a pipeline to the Middle East and South America and holes in the ocean but a lot of countries are going to start starving to death. Then they're going to get desperate....and angry. I know that right now you don't see a major problem with oil dependency. It's not right up in your face... but it's coming.