This was originally written in October 2007 when gas was $2.75 a gallon.

It has been decried long before the first Earth Day in the seventies and over thirty years later, we still allow our politicians, oil conglomerates, and irrational perspectives to rule our absurd interconnected world. As the price per barrel rises, we "barrel" into what could be the worst economic recession the world has seen while allowing our dollar to sink to the lowest price relative to other currencies in our history. There are many reasons for slower growth but none so permeating as oil. We feed terrorist countries with huge amounts of cash that they use to purchase weapons from our "allies" to use against us. We allow our economy to be tied to the purchase of that oil and therefore like a heroin addict we can't break away from the injection.

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Nick Oliva
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