Oil can still ruin the economy...

...even as we sit on the edge of electric cars and vehicles, truly synthesized fuels, the Earth's carbon storage system that we call --oil-- hangs over our heads and threatens once again to ruin our economies and change societies for the worse.  Here in the US let's say disaffection over the Administration's response to the Gulf Spill changes politics and we vote Obama out of office. Replacing him with a man/woman chosen by the War machine...the businesses that finance and equip our massive defense establishment.  Then  we would find a reason to go to war and begin to extinguish hundreds of thousands of lives...sisters, brothere, fathers mothers...loved ones, precious people to many others--and incidentally we terminate a wonderful adventure in this Obama Presidency.

We return our economy to a war footing just when green energy, and improvements in the American way of life...better health maybe, longer life spans; maybe some research that would improve the presently awkward state of medical science---we know so much more than we put into practice these days, and the gap is growing.

Oil--- and the people who would come to power are those who have kept us in the shadow of the Oil cloud, who eschewed or even blocked alternative fuels and hydrogen or electric vehicles. Oil can still ruin an economy because almost every contribution it makes has a damaging side effect- on air, water, even our physical routines of sedentary lifestyles...I walk a lot now and drive little---makes a big difference.
The thing itself is a vast energy source that we use in such a poor way...we burn it and send most of it off into the air, where we wear and breathe it.  I have a strong feeling one day OIL  will be used in many ways- to heal, to nourish, to build things ---and people will wonder of that primitive ritual of burning such a precious thing for a mere momentary pulse of energy.