Time to Gas Down

Whenever are we going to learn
The price of gas will just increase?
Why should we be Big Oil’s concern?
The driving public’s its to fleece.
Five bucks a gallon’s drawing near;
Yet tax breaks worth billions every year.

Ten billions on its bottom line.
(We’ll pay whatever at the pumps.)
And clear—no matter what—it’s fine,
Its firms can play us all for chumps.
Most still drive back and forth to work
And public transportation shirk.

Moreover, other factors now:
Unrest throughout the Middle East
Means some autocracies’ cash cow
Today’s a somewhat leaner beast.
By happenstance or by design,
Its milk costs more if in decline.

Though less supply, much more demand;
Chinese compete for every drop.
A match not easy to withstand;
Beijing is making cars nonstop.
It’s like an earlier Detroit
With much more market to exploit.

Let’s pay less mind to what remains.
We’ve got to seek alternatives.
Like high-speed rail instead of planes
And solar power that outlives
The rise and fall of fossil fuel,
Or have descendants judge us cruel.