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By C. Jake Williams. June 6, 2008
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I've been thinking about oil a lot lately, and last night that got me thinking about something Katie once said.
"You only call me when you're bored."
'Well duh,' I thought at the time, a sentiment I still hold today. Why would I call her to hang out if I was already having a blast with someone else? I wouldn't and therefore didn't, leading to a little sporadic nagging.
Dude, I don't know who Katie is, let alone what she has to do with oil.
I'm getting to that.
The point I'm trying to make with Katie is that most of the time we don't think about the options available to us to fix a situation until that situation actually faces us. Sure I could step back while playing hoops with Shane and decide that I'll call Katie once I leave my brother's house, but I'd rather focus on finding some way to control his ONLY MOVE.
That fucking up-and-under. GFY bro.
By planning ahead, I'd never get bored. I'd always have my escape from ennui bulletpointed out, waiting for execution.
But I'd rather figure out why Shane's rim loves it his bricks and swats away my jumpers like females repel physics majors.
Fucking blonde-and-blonders. Eat me flip-floppers.
Dude. Oil. Go.
Just try to watch the news today for fifteen minutes without a gas-price segment popping up. You can't do it. I'll give you a dollar if you can.
Haha! I said 'doll hair,' not 'dollar.' I know, I know: I'm an asshole.
Our oil situation is a lot like my high school boredom. We could have seen it coming, but we had other shit to do. And other distractions to distract us.
Distractions distracting? You can keep your wadded-up Ones as long as you keep gems like that coming!
But the problem with our oil situation is that the people who can fix it, the only people who can fix it, well they can only enact solutions during the time the are most easily preoccupied.
Senators and Representatives can pass legislation to alter economic tendancies, but only during their terms. Unfortunately, that's the time when they're playing ball.
You don't bite the hand that feeds you, even if you end up hating that hand once your term is up. That's when the hand bites you.
I wonder how many S&Rs have left office only to wish they had enjoyed the power less and used the power more. My guess: All of them.
I don't really have a point today You never do. but like I said I've been thinking a lot about oil lately. I suppose I'm just frustrated. I can just imagine Big Oil putting on a magic show of sorts for our S&Rs. Maybe they don't straight-up bribe them into doing nothing, but it wouldn't shock me if a legislator felt remorse after his term ended because plans were not made when they had the chance.
Keep them busy and they'll never call.
The United States Senate seems pretty busy right now.
You were there.