Oil prices are going through the roof.
Certainly all the uncertainty in the world isn’t helping.
But gas prices have skyrocketed. Which means inflation is skyrocketing, since the price of a unit of energy affects everything we purchase.
It’s killing me that all the DRILL DRILL DRILL folks are coming out of the woodwork and screaming, “we told you so!”
It’s killing me because, lest we forget, climate change is absolutely an existential threat to our very existence, too.
Seriously. Next time we get back-to-back “once in a century” storms, you’ll remember how much climate change sucks.
Or, just look at pictures of Beijing at noon to remember just how disgusting pollution is.
Now, we’re contemplating banning the import of Russian oil. And for some reason, this has spooked the oil market even higher.
Really? They supply about 5% of the world’s oil. Only about 1/2 million barrels a day to us. Why the hell do we need to drill more? We’re already exporting 17 TIMES that amount every day!
Maybe we should ask our national oil producers to keep U.S. oil in the U.S.? Or maybe they should just know to do that, as in, knowing the right thing to do in this situation?
AND… maybe the entire world doesn’t have to freak out about a lousy 5% of oil… how about we all just use 5% less energy? Walk to the store? Ride a bike to school? Use public transportation? Carpool? Take one car to a restaurant rather than two?
Seriously, simply combining weekly errands into just one or two trips a week would probably do it.
C’mon, America. We can tell Putin where to shove it AND help clean up the environment with so little effort… it will hardly feel like the WARTIME we’re in.
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