Good Night John Boy. Would the last one to leave Detroit please turn out the lights? Sound familiar? Maybe you remember some of these quips from 1974 when the first gas crisis struck on the heels of an earlier disagreement between the powers that be. The economy shuddered a little, there was a lot of debate that turned out to be mostly hot air, and the nation adapted and moved on. That’s what we do and do well once we get used to an idea or a situation that affects us nationally. It’s the economy and the war this time, but wasn’t it the economy and another war the last time as well? Perhaps the war didn’t have a name back then, but in retrospect, it was, and remains merely a continuation of the earlier World War. If you haven’t heard of World War III, then think about it like this: What we’re experiencing now is World War III – a world war being fought in the third world over dwindling resources and much more which I won’t go into here.
The impact, or pain at the pump, here at home is different from the first crisis in that the government seems to be clueless, powerless, impotent, or unwilling to tell the nation the truth. Whatever the reasons are, there remains a winter ahead, homes to heat, school buses to drive, trains, planes and automobiles to move, and the nation’s trucks to deliver our food and household needs to the nearby retailer.
Everyone has been touched by the surge in gas prices and we’re all singing the gas pump blues. Here’s an article the explores this topic a little more. Surge in Gas Prices
