Oil Subsidies

Paul Ryan came out against oil subsidies.  Democrats have been arguing this for years.  Paul Ryan is courageous.  Democrats hate business.

The problem is that with gas prices being ridiculous and unlikely to get better, the oil companies can simply pass the lack of subsidies on to us, the consumer.  Because what the hell else are we going to do?

Ever since that unserious failure Jimmy Carter pointed out that oil is not a renewable and inexhaustible resource, we've neglected to address this day of reckoning.  Now it is too late.

We are a society high on petroleum and the dealer just raised the hell out of his prices.  We could have weaned our dependency years ago.

We didn't and now we're screwed.