[epow]

Get ready for $4 gas, 'cause here it comes ready or not.

Most of the things we buy contain substances derived from petroleum, our food is produced with petroleum fueled equipment, and practically everything we buy is transported at some point by a petroleum fueled carrier of some kind. And an awful lot of what we buy comes all the way across the Pacific ocean and then all the way across the continent for those of us in the east. When crude goes up everything goes up, and I'm seeing that now every time I go through the supermarket checkout line.

[Nowhere Man]

Most of the things we buy contain substances derived from petroleum, our food is produced with petroleum fueled equipment, and practically everything we buy is transported at some point by a petroleum fueled carrier of some kind. And an awful lot of what we buy comes all the way across the Pacific ocean and then all the way across the continent for those of us in the east. When crude goes up everything goes up, and I'm seeing that now every time I go through the supermarket checkout line.

Maybe we can bring manufacturing home again, move the source closer to the demand.