A MacRant

I have to blow off some steam here. With all this crap going on with the stock market, the bail out bill, banks and insurance companies going under.......

I want to rant about gas prices. 4 years ago here I was paying from 1.50 to a 1.79 for a gallon of gas. We had it good here in the US compared to the rest of the world. The price per barrel of oil averaged around the area of $70.00 .

In the last year the price per barrel went up to almost $148.00. Gas prices here where I live topped at 3.99 a gallon average.
With what's going on with Wall Street the price per Barrel of oil has dropped down to $87.00 a barrel. The price at the pump is 3.39 a gallon.
Anyone doing any math here?

The price per barrel of oil is almost down to where it was 4 years ago but we are still paying several dollars more per gallon.
I hear the excuse that the dealers have to use up what they already have in their tanks because it cost more but, when the price of oil goes up the price at the pump goes up over night. Why aren't people screaming about this?

For the past few years I thought the reason for the high price per barrel of oil was because the oil producing countries were raising the price per barrel. Obviously that's not the case. The suckers on Wall Street are controlling the price of Oil.

Trying to contemplate what is happening with the economy leads me and my "Farsider mind to the Twilight Zone" believe that everyone is freaking out that Obama will be elected our next President thanks to the liberal media and their polls. I think that Americans are in a panic. All the big executives are pulling up stakes and leaving with large sums of money leaving the companies they work for very short on cash and the investors are freaking out due to the lack of money and seeing the big wigs jumping ship.

Anyone with money knows that if Obama becomes our next president he will tax and tax and tax and give everything to those that aren't contributing. People are grabbing what they can fast and probably hiding it in some off shore account where Obama can't get it.

 I scream everytime I hear that one of these CEOs or executives is walking off with hundreds of millions of dollars but again, it must be contactual. All planned. Just like here, when certain State workers  retire,  they walk off with big pensions and hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payers money for never being sick and having 20 some odd years of un used sick days, or vacation days ect... Believe me, if public or government workers could find a way to walk off with millions they would too. I believe that these big guys with the money they are walking off with are planning for the future and want something that can't be taken away.

As far as the banks and insurance companies, I may be wrong, but don't think so, but I could swear that after 9/11 the US government went in and bailed out the banks, insurance companies, airline companies and anyone else that cried the blues.  Every time some industry starts to fail now there seems to be the feeling that government has to come in and do a bail out. I am thinking that now, if the government doesn't step in and provide a check, someone is going to cry fowl and lawsuits will be filed.You can't help out one without helping out everyone. That's not fair.

Grrrrrrr, Who is going to put their foot down and say it has got to stop?