Tear Down That High Price For Oil.

Hey, ya know what? I think I've figured out how to get the price of oil back down to where it was ten years ago. Or maybe even fifty years ago. That's right fifty years ago, and it's not really all that big of a secret. I think you would have figured it out yourself if you had been reading an article in the paper like me that pretty much spelled it out. Here's what the article said. Oil prices have dropped on news of increased fears over European debt crisis. Simple enough. If people are worried about other debt, they aren't worrying about oil. Well actually that's not quite it. See, if European debt causes countries to fail, then those countries and peoples won't be using as much oil and so there would be a surplus of oil which would mean the price of oil would go down. The trick to lower prices on oil is to cut back on the numbers of people who want to buy oil. Here, look. If suddenly China decided not to use any more oil, there would be a whole lot more oil available to us and for a lot less money. In fact if you could convince enough people not to use oil any more, you could get the price of gasoline down to under a buck a gallon. The real trick is to figure out how to convince all those suckers they would be happier without oil. There are several methods that come to mind. Threats comes to mind. Slight of hand trickery is another. But probably the surest way would be to go to war. In fact go to ten or twelve wars, all at once. I'm convinced we've been practicing this method for the last decade or more. You know, sort of rehearsing for the real thing. Now don't get lost in the explanation here. I know that the actual prosecution of war increases the demand for oil. But only in the short term. An added side benefit is that producing nations would ramp up their capabilities, so that when the wars are over, there would be even more oil available at even lower prices. Now you might suggest that these producing countries would simply cut back on production at the end of hostilities. Not so. Not if we threaten them.