Reply #43: . 18 cents in Venezuela , cheap in Brazil [View All]

[RightSightBrightLite]

we are slaves to the oil companies

these countries have leaders who work in the public's interest

uprising now

someone posted a list on DU of all the known oilfields and the millions of millions of barrels waiting to be recovered it was awesome

and this other news from Alberta

but since Iraq did not get on line is this why the high prices?

corner the market on a resource deemed a national security issue and also to sell to developing china and india at high prices, is this why it is kept artificially high?

and it is REMARKable that one of the most vital sought after Earth gifts in the world used in plastics, clothing ,roads, solvents, paint ,tires, etc including fuel, nascar,aircraft carriers, tanks ,airplanes, military use dwarfs domestic use, need excess oil to justify expenditures on such wasteful weaponry, which have no good, maximum social economic spin-offs ? the origins of petroleum are still a mystery to some

then again control a society's energy flow = control society

big profits = big subterfuge
myths of scarcity
resource depletion allowance scams
would be silly to think there is not a disinfo campaign around oil and of course going way back to the early 1900's

but they have bought the government, we must start a campaign to contact our Rep's and challenge them to uphold the law, decency and citizen's interests and wellbeing

Red or Blue no one can stand this gouging ! my future is turning black and blue, trying to get out of the paycheck to paycheck grind but continually bruised by gas + UTILITIES

and the economy sucks cause people are not happy, scared, hoarding, desparing and losing hope

this is an emergency we need a change for Heaven's Sake !



think diamonds = abundance ...emeralds = scarce

there has not existed in antiquity enough fromerly living organic matter to account for the amount of oil used up to date
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The perception of scarcity, as was said, gave rise to competition for resources--success in the competition went to those most cunning, diligent and/or ruthless. Winning conferred power and status--the winners gained control of the resources. Those most useful to the winners were granted access to a greater measure, or share, in the resources--those successively further removed, less useful, received proportionately less--until they were so far removed that they received no share and no access. Thusly, hierarchies of access (to resources) were "born", and the now familiar drawing of the pyramid to represent those hierarchies was developed--with the winners, the richest, at or near the top, or peak, of the pyramidal diagram, and the losers, the poorest, distributed at the bottom along the great pyramidal base. Social dis-ease was born, spawning eons of suffering, conflict and wars.

The generally held belief that scarcity is Nature's design continues to rationalize and therefore justify, competition as the most effective strategy for survival, given the perception of resources as being both finite and scarce. Persons at the top levels of the pyramid control the distribution of resources to those below--this is called a scarcity driven "distributive" system.

Our new discovery of plenitude as Nature's design signals the opportunity to shed forever human behaviors and actions based upon a belief in scarcity--and with that, will arise a truly global and enduring peace.

http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/myths/scarcity/paz.shtml

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