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The tale of the greasy goose
Expanded from the 5-25-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

The only way to cut down a huge tree is to keep chopping, a little at a time, especially if you can't afford gas for your chain saw.

Oil companies, like casinos, run a rigged game. Neither our corporate controlled political leaders nor corporate controlled media are willing to print the story.

Hereinbelow, from the now 20 year-old and ever-expanding Barbwire Oilogopoly archive, is a brief outline of how the price at the pump is as rigged as any five-reel slot machine, the only difference being that the slot may pay off once every 500 years or so.

I sent the following to editors of major newspapers all over the country in 1996.

None bit.

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The foundation for the current spike in retail gas prices has been cleverly laid over the past 14 (now 26) years. The past six weeks are just a warning of things to come.

The monopolists really have developed a better mousetrap. You and I are in the cage.

John D. Rockefeller would be proud.

While we were sleeping, BigOil came up with a new Monopoly game and none of the mainstream media have been able to so much as categorize the obvious.



A beleaguered ARCO retailer's statement to a Nevada legislative committee back in the 1990s has proven chillingly prescient: "When oil is $5.00 a gallon, the only thing you can be sure of is that ARCO will be at $4.98."

Happy motoring on Memorial Day, if you can afford it.


Be well. Raise hell.


The Dean's List

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

The campaign against forcibly-paid newspaper obituaries
And they wonder why the newspaper business is dying?







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Andrew Barbano is a 39-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; a member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO; political action chair and webmaster of the Reno-Sparks NAACP; and producer of the annual César Chávez celebration. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune since 1988.

 

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