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First off, just go take a little peek at this graph. I’ll wait.

Yep. That’s right. Gas prices now, even adjusted for inflation, are worse than the oil crisis of the 1970’s. Gasoline prices are getting absurd, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Why’s that? Because we rely on a veritable Gasoline Mafia. OPEC is a mob, a cartel. They use thug tactics to manipulate us like little marionette puppets.

And we keep giving them more and more power!

Think I’m exaggerating? Check out this report that came out today.

OPEC has our arm behind our back and is twisting until we say “uncle”, and we are allowing them to manipulate us because of our foolish dependence on oil.

Fighting them is not the answer. We need to make them irrelevant. It’s our own fault for being so all-out dependent on oil. Even if they liked us, it’s just plain near-sighted and irresponsible to depend so heavily on a non-renewable resource.

And they don’t like us.

I fear that oil prices are going to be a very major issue in the upcoming election, but not in a good way. Both sides will be trying to buy votes by promising to lower gas prices, because that’s what people want to hear.

But the issue shouldn’t be lowering gas prices. Find me a candidate who is dedicated to the vision that, come the next election, gas prices won’t matter at all because gasoline usage is on its way out the door, and I’ll show you the guy I’m voting for, regardless of party.

It’s not about making oil cost less! It’s about realizing that we shouldn’t be using it. We have grand visions for the future (well, I do anyway) but we will never realize any of them while we are still relying on gasoline as our major source of power.

There are many reasons using gasoline is such a terrible idea, but today’s article about OPEC just brought this particular one to the front of my mind. So, in sum: It’s an amazingly stupid idea to put so much power in the hands of people who don’t like us. We are letting OPEC push us around, or at the very least have given them a good reason to think they can, and that will only end badly for us.