Things will get better real fast with the right person in office

[Middle finga]

As far as high oil prices I was actually amazed the price spike didn't come sooner than it did, with Bush/Cheney spending YEARS talking down the dollar, and literally throwing huge pallets of cash out of planes in Iraq and elsewhere. Not to mention destabilizing our Mideast oil sources with unnecessary wars, and giving Israel more than enough rope to hang themselves via strong public support for further Holocaust-like behavior in the region (how can Israeli Jews with any sense of history live with themselves?).

And atop all this, Bush/Cheney and crazed Israel have kept up a continuous drumbeat of starting yet more wars in the region, with Iran: another important oil source.

Folks, once we get the crazy people out of the White House and Congress, and re-attach a leash to Israel money-wise, plus put an end to all the war-mongering, lots of things could get much better lickity-split.

Sure, it'll take a long time indeed to undo all the astonishing damage Bush-Cheney Republicans have done to our country. And maybe even 6-9 months for a new and adult President to convince the world we're no longer going to be the lying terrorist crook slime we have been since 2000 (war criminal prosecution of Bush-Cheney and certain complicit Congress folk would probably speed that up a lot). But we can do it.

Of course, we could minimize the pain and delay even more by radically cutting our obscene defense budget and putting the difference towards things like universal healthcare, and an overhaul of our national infrastructure, including the creation of a true, modern mass transit system. Phasing out the current huge subsidies for 19th century mega-corporations like oil companies and agri-businesses, to instead encourage small startups of new 21st century tech for renewable energy and more local food production could help tremendously, too.

We can do it. We don't have to live in Bush-Cheney-McCain Republican hell forever.

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[FarCenter]

1. No, we'll be lucky to arrest the slide in 2 years and start up again in the third

Bringing on meaningful amounts of new energy from any source requires years. Reorganizing transportation to rely less on personal vehicles fueled by liquids takes year.

Rectifying the current half trillion dollar a year outflow of dollars due to the negative balance of trade either takes years or a really painful devaluation of the dollar.

[notesdev]

2. Oil will come down in price for one major reason in Jan 2009

The geopolitical instability premium (AKA the likelihood that Bush will invade yet another oil producing country) will disappear.

That'll knock $50 off the price of each barrel alone.