[Buggy]

There is quite a bit of speculation around the forums about whether or not the sheeple are catching on. Here is a survey from the MSM that would say nope, they're still in the dark.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Who is to blame for the current high price of gasoline? Oil companies and President Bush share the blame with 28 percent and 25 percent respectively, Twenty-three percent blamed investors and speculators and 17 percent blamed high consumer demand in countries such as China and India.

[mefistofeles]

As the old expression goes ,"Throw a rock in the air you're bound to someone guilty."

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', 'T')he die-hard conservatives blame the tree-hugging liberals.
The Liberals blame the Bush war.
The Independents blame the oil companies.

Only a tiny minority of Peak Oil nuts blame geology. How can that tiny minority be right against the weight of expertise of all those other groups?

[americandream]

It's quite simple really. If as a family, you had a pantry set aside for the winter and one greedy member of the family scoffed the lot in a month. Who would you blame?

That greedy member of that family now presumes to point the finger at the rest!

Hahahaha. Predictable!

[Buggy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')t's quite simple really. If as a family, you had a pantry set aside for the winter and one greedy member of the family scoffed the lot in a month. Who would you blame?

That greedy member of that family now presumes to point the finger at the rest!

Hahahaha. Predictable!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', '
')And now we are all fighting over the last cookie.

[vetusfirma]

DreamOn: If you studied this issue you would have happened upon Jevrons paradox. The oil will run out regardless of who does what. It's not my fault, not your fault, it just is.

[vetusfirma]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', 'A')nd now we are all fighting over the last cookie.

[Novus]

Who is to blame???

The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[hironegro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'W')ho is to blame???The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'W')ho is to blame???The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '[')b]Who is to blame??? The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'W')ho is to blame???The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[hironegro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('steam_cannon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '[')b]Who is to blame??? The answer is we all are to blame. Everyone consumes oil and we all had our hands in this cookie jar.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hironegro', 'S')orry bro V was terrorist

[Tyler_JC]

Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

The Chairman of the Board for General Motors in the 1940s and 1950s.

He's the guy who destroyed the American street car industry, convinced Congress to build a car-based society, invented planned obsolescence, and convinced the American people that they needed to buy a new car as often as possible.

There are others, obviously, but his name sticks out in my mind as the guy who created suburbia and the resultant oil-dependent lifestyle.

[Novus]

Alfred P Sloan was certainly a very bad man but he hardly acted alone.

I can rattle off a whole bunch of names complicit in the conspiracy:

William Levitt

His idea of utopia was a planned community of 50,000 with no public transportation and all houses accessible only through cars. By all accounts he was an egocentric madman.

Robert Moses

The master builder of New York from 1930 to 1965 who had an obsession with 8 lane freeways. Best known for dynamiting inner city neighborhoods and forcing people into the suburbs.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Champion of recreating Hitler's autobahn in the United States for a staggering cost of $114 billion dollars or ($425 billion in today's money). Total cost after 50 years of maintenance and expansion amounts to over $1 trillion in government road subsidies to suburbia.

Harry .S Truman

Best know for the housing act of 1949 which included the mortgage tax deduction designed to get people into single family homes in the burbs. Total cost in the untold tens of trillions. Father of the ownership society and a way of life we hold to be un-negotiable.

[Revi]

The blame game is pointless. We are all part of the oil culture. We all drive around in cars. We live a lifestyle that's unsustainable. Hopefully we can use what's left to build a future. I drove over 30 miles today to help build a solar/electric car. Blaming people for the things that happened in the 20th century is not going to help us out now.

It's human nature, though.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'T')he blame game is pointless.