Oil hits $67 barrel

I'm seeing regular at $2.49 this week. I started planning better to combine trips when it hit $1.73. I did take the trip in July I had been planning, since it involved other people. I might not make such plans today.

I like that comic.

Oh boy...I do hope we can mass-produce a cheap alternative to oil before we run out of it.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...move along folks, nothing to see here.

I'm still puzzled as to WHY such a rapid and dramatic increase. Two years ago gasoline was $1.25 - $1.35 a gallon. Iraq was invaded and oil production was stopped. I get it, but that triggered a jump of over $1.00 a gallon? Over $1.00 a GALLON increase people. They're producing now, maybe not at previous capacity but producing still. No relief but even higher prices now?

A higher demand for oil? Now way demand jumped that considerably that price is affected so radically, I don't care how many new vehicles around the world are now on the road.

I really do hope this is the beginning of the end for oil and the stimulus for alternatives to be earnestly initiated. However, I'm afraid as long as Washington is infected by the oil lobby the only winner will be the oil conglomerate.

I don't feel bad for US automakers who I expect to be down to 1 or 2 in less than ten years. It's their own damned fault for producing almost exclusively gas guzzlers. Honda alone is coming out with 10 (!) hybrid vehicles compared to the two or three hybrids from US companies. Big profits now, annihilation later.

What bothers me most is how it seems everyone has accepted this predicament without question.

In my lifetime I wish I would get to see worldwide oil supplies exhausted. Middle East nations wouldn't have much, if any, of the influence they now enjoy and the Mother Nature would get a much needed reprieve.