I Know A Lie When I hear One

I fully realize I’m giving away my age, but in 1970 Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner sang a duet named “Run That By Me One More Time.”  Within that song were the words “I might be crazy, but I ain’t dumb, and I know a lie when I hear one.”

That’s what I keep thinking every time I hear another trumped up excuse by the news media as they repeat the nonsense spoon fed to them by the greedy buzzards making billions of dollars from the sweat of the common man by robbing him of his money in the form of gasoline prices.

The latest goes something like this; the price of gasoline is rising because of fear of a war with Iran.  What a load of horse manure that is.  It is possible, but highly unlikely, that the price of gasoline could go up because of an actual war with Iran.  Rising gasoline prices caused by fear of a war is outright greed, nothing more, nothing less.  Speculation on Wall Street, or anywhere else, supposedly caused by fear of a war, should have nothing to do with the actual price of gasoline at the pump rising.  If the bulls and the bears want to play, do it with something else than petroleum, or commodities.  America needs these to survive, and the greedy buzzards on Wall Street are selling our great nation down the drain for the almighty dollar that will be useless if it continues.

Let’s get down to basics.  The cost of removing a barrel of oil from the ground, transporting it to a refinery, processing it, and placing it in a tank at your local gas station hasn’t changed in the last few weeks, but the price of gasoline has increased almost daily.  That is greed at its worst.

The media, telling us lies, one after another, would have us believe that Iran may stop supplying the world, and thus the price must rise.  Let’s go back to basics again.  The world is using a certain amount of oil.  Saudi Arabia has stated they are pumping crude at a reduced level at present, (to maintain an inflated price on it) and if Iran ceased production completely the Saudis can and will up their production to replace it.  Again, the oil speculators are pumping up the price of crude based on a big fat lie, the fear of a loss of Iran’s oil will make prices rise.  The amount of oil used by the world isn’t going to change drastically whether Iran pumps crude or not.  It should make no difference in the price of gasoline whether the crude comes from Iran or Saudi Arabia.  It’s just a big lie, and the American public is being given a daily dose of crap, conveyed by our media, that we should pay higher prices for absolutely no real reason.

Whenever you pay extra dollars at the pump, which is lining the pockets of the super-rich speculators, that is dollars you do not have to spend on your necessities of life, much less any left over to spend on a few wants, as opposed to needs.  When you spend your hard earned money on gasoline, versus goods, then those goods don’t get sold.  Manufacturers go out of business, people are without jobs, jobless people have no money to spend, then more manufacturers go out of business.  This is a recession turning into a depression, only so the Wall Street monopoly players can amass personal wealth they can’t possibly spend to keep the economy running.

Fear of a war with Iran causes gasoline prices to rise, my aching butt.

“I might be crazy, but I ain’t dumb, and I know a lie when I hear one.”  Thank you Dolly, and may Porter rest in peace.