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Fractured Fairy Tale

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FROM A READER

Published: August 6, 2008

Editor:

I had an idea for a book. A Texas oil man and his oil man friend are elected president and vice president. Just as they are sworn in the body that oversees commodity futures trading becomes unregulated. The vice president holds secret meetings with heads of leading oil companies.

One company, "Schmenron," manipulates energy prices and creates artificials shortages in California. Other companies and hedge funds see how well this scam worked and perpetrate it on a massive scale. They put hundreds of billions into the energy futures market and drive up prices of oil and gasoline for everyone.

Then the president and his neo-con nincompoops tell Americans we need to drill for more oil to fix our problems. But the exorbitant prices force many people to stop driving and boating so much. The resulting reduction in oil use relieves the need for more drilling.

The president and his Republican cohorts in Congress continue to try and sell this harebrained drilling scheme, but Americans are too smart and don't let them get away with it. They realize this is the 21st century and an environmentally friendly fuel is needed to stop global warming.

The president retires to his ranch and the vice president returns to running a giant conglomerate, "Schmaliburton."

Nah. Too improbable. No one would believe it.

Ted Johns
New Port Richey

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