Showing posts with label market research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label market research. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Oil Industry Criminal Cartel

The Oil Industry Criminal Cartel

The falling price of oil — and gasoline prices, too — should lower inflation and lending rates, boost consumer confidence and could even influence whom voters chose in November's presidential election.

For motorists, it could mean oil prices under $100 a barrel later this year and deeper price declines at the gasoline pump. Already, the national average for a gallon of gasoline, which stood at $4.10 a month ago, was down to $3.83 on Friday, according to the AAA Motor Club.

Thirty-two years ago I asked a service station attendant for a gallon can of gas. My Volkswagen had sputtered dry a mile down the road. When he asked me if I had tripped the emergency gasoline supply, I nodded yes.

He explained in the last Venezuelan revolt the rioters had requested gas in small amounts to make Molotov cocktails.

Finally, I thought, a good reason for fossil fuels.

I was in the Andes Mountains to determine the potential market for tethered communication balloons. In Caracas, I was also working on windmill generated electricity delivered by underground residential cables.

My firm was doing marketing research on earthquake detection devices, anti-submarine surveillance, grain silo monitors and many other avenues. My favorite team examined the Bay of Fundy tides as electricity generators.

Two years after the OPEC Oil Embargo everybody with a brain in his head knew there was no future for fossil fuels.

Most politicians are well-paid shills for the special interests who have sat on technological progress for generations.

They are enemy combatants.