$10/barrel. That was the price of oil in January 2000. Can you believe it? In just 5 ½ years, the price of oil has increased six-fold to $60/barrel. In addition, the price of gasoline in January 2000 was $1.10/gallon. That means if you filled your car twice a month and spent $40, now you’d be spending about $88 a month (at $2.20/gallon). Of course commuters in Los Angeles and other cities are obviously getting gouged even worse due to longer distances and stop & go traffic. Plus, if you were dropping $500/year on home heating fuel in 2000 (at a price of approximately $.89/gallon), you’d now be forced to surrender nearly $1150 (at a price of $2.18/gallon) for the same amount of oil.

So, let’s examine what this means. If you’re putting forth an extra $48/month on gasoline for your car, that’s an additional $600/year. Likewise, if residential home heating fuel costs have increased by $1150/year, the sum total for just these two variables is $1750/year!

Think about this scenario for a moment. In half-a-decade --- a mere five years --- we’re forking-over nearly $1800 more for energy. And we’re not even factoring in the skyrocketing inflation associated with elevated oil prices (higher grocery bills due to increased trucking costs, etc), as well as higher utility bills for electricity, natural gas, and the like. And since this trend isn’t expected to reverse itself, over the next five years we’ll be bamboozled out of $9,000 minimum ($1800 x 5). Now, what do you think you could do with an extra $9,000? I’m sure all of us could come up with an array of answers, but we’ll never get to put them into practice because this sum of money will have been directly stolen from us via the 21st century oil hoax.

To make matters worse, the New World Order elite have been planning for years at their annual Bilderberg meetings to implement a global tax on the citizens of this world – especially Americans. But, realizing that the outrage over such a concept would be more than they wanted to deal with, they simply created the “peak oil” scam and gouged us indirectly through meteoric energy costs.

Peak Oil = an indirect hidden tax.

$10/barrel in January 2000. Now we’re being extorted out of $1800/year by a cabal of excessively greedy international bankers and heads of multi-national corporations. Think of how many bills could be paid with this “lost” amount of money – or how you wouldn’t have to work so hard to make ends meet – or the extra things you could buy for your kids – or, God forbid, how you could even SAVE a few dollars for a rainy day. But instead of allowing us to keep our own hard-earned money, the blood-sucking bastards atop the control pyramid are stuffing it into their own pockets (see Exxon-Mobil’s record-breaking profits for 2004).

Things aren’t right, folks; and it’s time we started raising some hell about it!