The climate in the USA is reprehensible. What started as a good deal for the monied minority is becoming an asset drain for the middle-class and lower class. The United States is involved with every industrialized country on earth.
Wall Street brokers rejoice as oil prices drop to...get this...$65.85 as of 9/6. That is a pittance. That is a mere $1.61 drop. As long as the demand is there, then the price will continue to rise. The demand is only going to increase now that SUVs are falling out of favor with the ruling class. The prices on these vehicles for resale will be reasonable enough that the younger generation will start purchasing them. Once again the demand for fuel will spike.
Even those who live outside the united states are strongly effected by these developments. Prices for plastics are already expected to increase due to the price for oil futures. Who pays for these increases? You, me...US!
Those who have given up on cars are not going to escape either. Those little bottles of vitamin water? Oil. Those hemp-based clothes are NOT made by hand picking plants to go to a spinning wheel. Oil. Turning off the television and reading a book still involves light. Oil. Lighting a candle? It got to the vendor somehow. Oil.
This must end NOW!
Invite EVERYBODY on your tribe list to join this tribe! We can organize single-day boycotts that will cause the end-vendor (gas station owners) mass amounts of concern. We are not going to reach them at the top unless we start hacking away at the bottom. The time is now. The power rests with each of us. Together we can change the economy toward our benefit and those of our brothers and sisters.
The only crime is failure to organize. Peaceful, firm demonstration is the response that they fear most. They need us more than we need them.
Love to all. Get to work!
Wall Street brokers rejoice as oil prices drop to...get this...$65.85 as of 9/6. That is a pittance. That is a mere $1.61 drop. As long as the demand is there, then the price will continue to rise. The demand is only going to increase now that SUVs are falling out of favor with the ruling class. The prices on these vehicles for resale will be reasonable enough that the younger generation will start purchasing them. Once again the demand for fuel will spike.
Even those who live outside the united states are strongly effected by these developments. Prices for plastics are already expected to increase due to the price for oil futures. Who pays for these increases? You, me...US!
Those who have given up on cars are not going to escape either. Those little bottles of vitamin water? Oil. Those hemp-based clothes are NOT made by hand picking plants to go to a spinning wheel. Oil. Turning off the television and reading a book still involves light. Oil. Lighting a candle? It got to the vendor somehow. Oil.
This must end NOW!
Invite EVERYBODY on your tribe list to join this tribe! We can organize single-day boycotts that will cause the end-vendor (gas station owners) mass amounts of concern. We are not going to reach them at the top unless we start hacking away at the bottom. The time is now. The power rests with each of us. Together we can change the economy toward our benefit and those of our brothers and sisters.
The only crime is failure to organize. Peaceful, firm demonstration is the response that they fear most. They need us more than we need them.
Love to all. Get to work!
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Re: The Manifesto
Sat, September 10, 2005 - 9:53 AMHearin' you brother....
we are all addicted in obvious and not so obvious ways to the oil industry. every time we pick up the pump our money goes to the machine, buying products that take oil to get to our hands. the machine that thrives off the war, creating profit off of natural disaster and the reluctance of the people to take a stand.
In the end the power does lie in our ability to organize and hit them the same way they hit the people, in their pockets. Our prices to heat our homes this winter are also expected to rise....the effects are not just in our transportation costs. So let's cwapurate as sister bee from the islands said and create the change we want to see.
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Re: The Manifesto
Thu, September 15, 2005 - 12:20 AMhow in the hell are boycotts going to drive down the price of oil? unless you know something i don't, the oil companies are just reacting to a drop in supply, an inevitable outcome considering their aint no more dinosaurs. I heard from an oil engineer (out on the playa, no less) that there is only 200-400 years left, if scientist's figures are correct, and it is getting harder and harder to harvest the stuff, so the cost to harvest will continue to increase. I'm all for lower gas prices, especially considering the ripple effect this is having on inflation, but do you really think all those people who boycott gas are really going to "erase" that day from their intake schedule? hell no. people gotta work. people gotta feed their families. vacations? maybe we should all take a local vacation. maybe we should buy goods and services locally that don't require transportation and the oil needed to transport. maybe we otta require that goods lable their oil transport dollars spent. maybe this is the wake up call we really, really needed! ironically, the higher the price rises, the more positive change in consumption behaviour we should see. my prediction: after we hit $118 a barrel, the us government will REQUIRE non-industry-related vehicles to boycott gas stations. how bout them plastic apples? -
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Re: The Manifesto
Thu, September 15, 2005 - 11:47 AMAppreciated feedback, however the entire idea here is to get people to drive less. The idea is to get people to take a serious look at their driving habits and restructure their lives accordingly. If we take one day a (week, month, etc.) and DONT TOUCH OUR CARS we are going to make an immediate and measureable difference in our own lives. Enough people do that, we are going to make a difference in the bottom line for (Chevron, Shell, etc). We're not looking at people stocking up their gas tanks on Thursday so that they don't visit Shell on Friday. We're looking at a two-prong approach. DON'T DRIVE ONE DAY A WEEK is one tributary, the second being physical demonstration at a singled-out retail outlet for a singled-out oil company. The end result, be it higher oil prices or lower oil prices, is going to be driven by the end-consumer. OPEC nations are going to be the last to feel any heat whatsoever, but they are the most difficult and highest profile target. You wanna kill a giant, ya gotta go for its ankles.
Look, I'm a capitalist. I don't do business for a feel-good, hippy-dippy, karmic savings account. While I pride myself on being honorable and doing that which fits with my values, I am primarily motivated by what is going to make a direct improvement within the lives of my loved ones. However I have lines that I don't cross. The first is taking advantage of those in less fortunate positions. Make no mistake, the oil companies are trading around 20% above what they were trading for a year ago. CPI is around 4% for most markets. This means a 16% return on investment *after adjustment for devaluation of the dollar*!
Will a boycott drop the price of oil? Only if we modify our lives to sustain that decrease in need. When oil becomes less of a neccissity and more of a concious luxery it becomes less valuable. This is the same principle that drives down prices on every consumable good in the market.
The cost to 'harvest' oil will continue to rise, much like the cost of salt. 200 years is a rather optomistic view unless we look at some serious conservation.
There is an interesting site that may or may not be the product of a paranoic mind, however a lot of the content in there makes sense. We need to make adjustments to our lives now, in a voluntary fashion, before it is made for us.
www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ -
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Re: The Manifesto
Thu, September 15, 2005 - 12:13 PMWooohooo! the FFO site is up...
www.tedward.org/ffo/
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