The World's Oil Is Limited!

It is the year 2025. Crude oil is now $100.00 per barrel when available and gasoline is $5.99/gallon. There are ancient SUV's built in the early part of this milleum now rusting into dust. Ten years ago, the oil producing countries saw this coming and built state of the oil refineries and now sell not crude oil but gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil on the open market.

The world's demand for refined oil products has doubled in the last 20 years with China and other emerging economic nations outbiding the once powerful west for the available fuels on the open market. America is now 3rd or 4th as far as strength of economies is concerned and there once powerful industries are now quiet.

The last of the remaining 'Big 3' in Detroit closed it's door just weeks ago. Honda, Toyota, Hyundia, and Kia are now the "Big 4" with some plants in America but most now come out of Mexico, Korea, and Japan. Detroit had an opportunity back at the turn of the 21st century to make economical vehicles but the then driving public demanded the SUV's and Lincolns and Cadillacs with huge V8 engines when gas was cheap and then plentiful.

China is now producing fuel efficient automobile and hybrids to meet the demand of the now quasi-market driven economy. The Chinese government once had a strangle hold on their people but now the money is flowing and the demand side of this now strong economy is now market driven. Their people are buying cars, living in air conditioned homes, now using the gasoline and diesel fuel and heating oils like the west did some 20 years ago.

America is in turmoil over the change of events over the last decade. The wars drained out economies and we now are paying high interest rates to countries who have held our debt and money over these wasteful periods. This has caused inflation and high prices and his interest rates to borrow money as the banks are now, for the most part, control by countries outside the US of A. The US thought once our service economy was the answer to the worlds needs but soon India and China and pacific rim nations outbided us for this business.

We, the US, could once control our own destiny but now we are at the mercy of the then emerging nations and economies. America is on the brink of bankrupcy, not knowing which way to turn. We have wasted our oil reserves and almost all our coal. Our industry is quiet and we have so little now to offer the world from this once most powerful nation in the world. If we had only acted responsibly back some 20 or 30 years ago and begun to make everything fuel efficient from our cars to our homes to our industry, we only may have avoided this delimia.

Why did our leaders not see this coming? Why did we not have statemen rather than politicians that made decision for the greater good rather than selfish motives to help line their pockets and satisfy their voters back home. If we had only.....