Down with Up! *
Things are going up
Like the body count overseas
And the gas at the pump
And our jobs with a never-you-please!
But let’s focus on gas.
Who’s getting that money?
Imports are up, and new wells are past,
About half that you pay goes
To those that hate us.
That’s not something I chose.
About a third goes to tax!
This makes our government
Part of the problem and lax.
The rest is split between
Refining and marketing
(at least in the past)
Those overseas nations
Sit on two-thirds of the oil
And decide our rations
While our pleasures they foil.
And future supply?
Well, it is going down quicker
Than OPEC dares to defy
Or a drunks’ glass of liquor.
So
My spirit is low
And you’d have to be slow
To not know that I’ll go
To vote NO at the polls.
*this is out of date now, I wrote it in 2008.
*this is out of date now, I wrote it in 2008.
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