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June 27, 2005

Simple question, simplified answer

"If the War in Iraq was all about oil, how come gas prices are still so high?"

This was a comment I read somewhere recently. To that commenter, and anyone else who needs it spelled out:

Gas prices are still high because the oil companies charge as much as they can possibly get away with. That's what corporations do.

The oil companies are lovin' every minute of this eternal War on Terra. What, you think they could just jack up gas prices 50%+ overnight and get away with it, without some excuse the general public would swallow?

If there's a war, there'll be war profiteers. If there's peace, the war-mongers will always be looking for other profit opportunities. William Rivers Pitt has an excellent post about our military-industrial complex.

Rumsfeld says 12 years may be necessary to defeat the insurgency; damn that's some hellified "last throes"! Is that how long we'll take to complete the Green Republic of FUBAR in the Green Zone? But how long can it stand, as an island surrounded by hostile territory?

Long enough for Exxon to post a few more quarters of record-breaking profits. Count on THAT.

Posted by Jeff at June 27, 2005 11:31 AM