oil is becoming more and more essential to human development and at a heavier price - i found out tonight (just surfing on wikipedia like the loser i am) that the last oil refinery built in the united states was in louisiana in 1976. Since then, a hundred (or hundreds, i don't remember which one) or so have shut down and they're probably still there, just like all of the old factories around toronto that take up nasty space. this needs to change.
we have so much newer technology than frickin 1976. my mom was practically my age in 1976. the only good thing about 1976 was the blue jays being created, maybe the american bicentennial and a volcano eruption. and if you like jimmy carter, which you probably don't, he got elected. at least gerald ford was out.
anyways, what was i saying. yeah, 70 frickin 6? it's 2009. that's almost 2010, which is almost 2020, 2050, 2100 and so on. we have to get out of the ages and times of thinking we're stuck in the past. this new era, obama era, digital whatever you call it, is an awesome opportunity to think of the future. let's take this economic slump and use it as an opportunity to boom up after like we did in every other recession. i ranted about this already, didn't i? shit.
again, updating our refineries with cleaner, fair-traded materials and maybe solar power technology, water filtration engineering (my dad does that shit) , and make sure the metals, plastics and other materials we build with are built in good faith. local production is key, but don't shut off trading to other sources if necessary. just make sure people aren't being exploited for what they provide you. their resources are just as valuable to this earth as ours are. what happened to treat others as you want to be treated?
what is happening to the refineries in iraq? are they old or new, and who is running them and owning them? in fact, i'm surprised we all know so little about where this oil is going and who's making money off of it. i've been told several times now that the reason the war started was because hussain wouldn't trade his oil in the english pound or u.s. dollar. some would call this radical and some would call this heroic...but it certainly caused somethin.
next time i wanna talk about sugar, al jazeera english and pina coladas <3
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