Price of Oil & Food

Okay time to have it out. Price of Oil should be in a range between $1.00 to $1.20 a litre in Canada. Too low and companies are fighting for financial survival on many levels. Too low and people think Oil is like water – no respect for it and wasted. Too low and not enough money can be put into helping manage the environment and resources. Too low and Governments have a hard time managing their budgets. Alternative fueled vehicles become pipe dreams with no light at the end of the tunnel. See my point !

However – too high and you kill the economy, simple as that. Fine balance between both sides. Endless spikes and high prices puts fear into the minds and hearts of consumers everywhere. Domestic Consumer purchases plummet, auto sales go down, jobs are lost, domestic car production becomes exported small car imports, and governments everywhere have to deal with high unemployment, shifting jobs from full to part time jobs, CPP/EI and all that fun stuff hits the skids, stupid programs have to be put in place to deal with social unrest….. yadda, yadda, yadda. Next thing you know, we’re in the same boat as Greece, Spain Italy.

Ah the Dance of Life. And I’m the one who has to point it all out. Right, beam me up Scotty ! I’m outta here in a flash once I deal with the mess and cleanup. Better start thinking where this is all headed, cause in my case, I’ve figured it out – it just a matter of time before the world either gets it’s act together or I’ve got mine all wrapped up in a nice CARE package.

Last but not least – my fav, Food. The price of Corn is unsustainable. To use if for everything else other than eating it whole off the cob drives the cost of food into the stratosphere. It’s totally wrong first of all to use it as an alternative to reduced fuel emissions in vehicles. PERIOD. Cars have come a long way without having to use ethanol now.

If something is gonna change the world, mark my words – it won’t be the price of Oil. It’ll all boil down to Food. I can’t wait to see the Cavemen and Mad MAX attitudes once that grabs hold. You won’t even need to go to the theatre to watch it on the Big Screen nor your 60 inch HDTV in the living room.

REAL LIFE – Welcome to the Dance of LIFE & NRGY. This is gonna be interesting as a voyeur to watch from the sidelines if these simple things aren’t solved properly.

Yep, everything’s connected – so that probably means changes on the financial markets to manage prices and keep them in check.

Heck hope no one was under the impression this was gonna be easy.

Don’t you just love the maxim – Play Hard, Work Hard, Die Hard ! Ain’t in my vocabulary and plans, how about you ???

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