It's ironic we'd be talking about world power this week. I've been meaning to post this up, but hadn't had the chance.

A premonition from the past

It's kind of funny, really. All this time we'd convinced ourselves we were #1 in the world. Problem is that in order to be #1, you need to not rely on anyone else. We've been reliant and are still reliant on other countries to keep ourselves afloat. We owe them, they know it. Yet we just kept acting like it was us doing them the favor. All the while they tightened their grip on us like a boa constrictor.

If you didn't already know, the US is the only country that has private oil companies. All the rest are state run in some capacity or another. Oil was always political, always at the center of world relations. Iraq was about oil, but not in the way most people think. We didn't want the oil in the ground. We wanted another friend in the Middle East, one we had influence over. Well, that didn't turn out so well.

There's a huge slice of humble pie that America is going to have to choke down. Our days of acting like the big dog in the yard are done. How can we be a superpower if we can't even get our boats out of dock? We have to accept the fact that until we can get the alternative fuels going, we are merely a customer to the real Big Oil...the ones who have it. That ain't us, guys. It's Russia and the Middle East, our two biggest "enemies" as far as the history of the last 50 years.

We Are So Hosed.

Now can you see why my company wants to get out of oil and into other forms of energy?

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