Reply #26: Cal is Correct! [View All]

[earthside]

Most of what Cal Thomas writes here is correct.

Most Americans do consider prosperity an entitlement. I see lower income folks in my neighborhood who have bought $30,000 SUVs just last year ... and now they are crying about the price of gasoline.

Sorry, but I know these folks get the daily newspaper, too. Like most Americans they've just been in total denial about the oil situation and they bought all the Bush economic propaganda because it was easy.

Now, Thomas is a hypocrite, he'll defend Wal-Mart which has been instrumental in creating the culture of low prices that has given us the culture of low wages ... so folks cannot afford pricy gas. And I'm sure he would dispute Peak Oil.

But it is just true ... gasoline is going to be more expensive ... and if you cannot afford it you're going to have to give up the air conditioning, the stereo and the cell phone when you want to drive two miles just to rent a DVD.