There is a new conspiracy lurking about
brought on by media doom 'n gloom sayers,
“The economy is bad,” their headlines spout
to invent news and sell papers no doubt,
and now we know the oil business is rather slow-
they took it to heart, panicked, then parted
with their 600% profit margin…
So the prices are plummeting,
but why were they high?
Isn't it incredible that no one knows,
isn't it ridiculous, this lingering mystery
how, in just a few short weeks, there is a 50% drop
in the price of a gallon of gasoline,
no one knowing why it flips and flops…
The pundits have theories
but they’re yesterday’s theories,
they really aren’t saying anything new-
it's quite apparent they're just a bit errant
and like the rest of us do not have a clue…
So it must be a conspiracy, a media conspiracy-
pretending the economy's unsound, to get oil prices down
but I must confess I am a part of the mess
and this reverse oil conspiracy trap-
for in all honesty I don’t need the crap-
if it were all gone tomorrow I’d find other means
to do all the things I don’t really have to do,
and so would you.
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Oh yeah btw: some props for you.
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Schweet.
Made me laugh in that delightfully cynical chuckle.
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rofl... this is really, really good! I am highly impressed and loving the content as well. Truth spoken in humor is taken much more to heart than any lecture in duldroms.
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nice, funny take on such a serious subject... for me it's funny see the big countries shaking worriedly about this...when i've lived that way all my life...
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so true. i often feel the same way. lovely close. keep on writing!
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Thanks for sharing , like your work
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wow! a very well written, eye opening piece. i love the way you put these words together. i especially love the last couple of lines those really close it well. you have such talent thank you for sharing.
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High 5
Adequately grasps, I think, the disconnect between oil prices and reality.
Good read as well.
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You want the short answer?
Third world economies are coming on line at a high rate of speed. India and China in particular. Demand for petroleum skyrocketed and price went up.
As price went up, hundreds of trucking companies running on razor thin margins to stay competitive against fleets went belly up. Over the course of a year hundreds of thousands of people migrated from pickups/suvs to economy cars. Demand went down.
Gas is affordable again, but the trucking companies can't come back on line... they're wrapped up in bankruptcy proceedings. SUV lovers are skeptical gas will stay low, so aren't buying the big box wheels.
And WHERE ON EARTH did you get 600% profit margin?! Petroleum companies make 8-10 cents per gallon now as well as during the price spike. Their huge profits are simply from selling gazillions of gallons. The Fed gov't takes 16 cents a gallon... notice they never want to impose windfall profits on themselves
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600% lol nothing like a little exaggeration to make a point... (though at $4/gal I'd believe 200%) now what you're describing doesn't explain the remarkable drop in only a few weeks- I've read about speculation and whatnot, that makes more sense, not supply and demand, not for a 50% drop in two weeks... (I derived the uncontrolled speculation viewpoint from an article by an airline CEO fuming about it all...)
Let's see, how would I do it- I'd buy several billion barrels or two, then refuse to sell them, driving up demand, and hence the price... then unload it all, either because the government told me to at gunpoint or because it wasn't going to rise anymore for a while, and I needed the cash for other destructive speculative ventures... hence the sharp fall in prices... sounds like an explanation to me...
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Superb
A very fine write, indeed. Imagery; rhythm and rhyme are just fine. Thanks for sharing this one with us. -
me? I think I'll harness up the
and go by way of cat and buggy! take that oil cartel!!!
Yep you said it best but then you always do!
laurie
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thanks, Poe, you got me to go over it for readability again, tinkering with several commas, a semicolon or two, and a few extraneous words tripping up flow... so a star on your forehead for that...!
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