Life and Gas Prices.

Today is the last day at my current job, however with gas prices increasing, I do not feel that I would be able to keep neither my new job nor my current one. I need to start looking for something closer to home.

None the less, I will begin my weight training tommorrow. Hope to start out slow for the first few weeks and only try to run 2 miles a day after work. I need to pick up a new pair of sneakers Sunday morning too. Running in boots isn’t very smart.

A lot has been going on in the political realm lately. Ron Paul has openly called for 3rd party candidates to be included in the debates. Doubtfully will happen seeing as the Dems and Repubs control the organization that puts on the debates.

Then of course you have the Rally for the Republic that happened in Minnesota at the beginning of the month. While I was unable to attend I did watch it off C-Span’s website. Jesse Ventura and Dr. Paul did a great job in their speeches and it was great being able to listen to Lew Rockwell as opposed to only reading his literature.

Yesterday, Saudi Arabia decided to walk out of OPEC after they decided against cutting production to keep the prices from declining sharply. There is a reason why OPEC would do this and it is not for more profits in my opinion. It’s because if the prices decline now, the oil countries will be bringing in a lot less money. I think that because of the Saudi’s walking out on OPEC and the anniversary of 9/11 was the cause of the 0.45 cent  increase in gasoline prices. There were people talking about the sky falling and how gas prices are going to be going past $5. I hadn’t even heard of the news about OPEC at the time, so I was curious as to why the prices would increase so much in one day. I actually thought we had attacked Iran, as there have been speculation that if we do it will sharply increase the gasoline prices very rapidly.

If we go back to one of my previous posts, you will find out that the price of gas is really irrelevant. The blame of why gas prices are so high is because of OPEC and they’re foundation of selling gasoline in USD as opposed to it being a free market. With the US at 9 trillion dollars of debt, inflation of the dollar has caused this mess. Inflation is what should be to blame, not big oil producers. The price of gasoline is just smoke and mirrors my friends.