I Don't Want to Be Right About This

In my very humble opinion, two of the major problems with the American economy are high gasoline prices and the loss of manufacturing jobs. As I reflected upon the state of our economy, I came to a conclusion which I do not want to believe. If my conclusion is correct, it would mean not only accepting higher gas prices, it would require me to embrace them. And I do not stand for that. Follow my logic and please find the flaw in my thinking. The products we buy are mostly manufactured overseas from raw materials produced in a third country. It is less expensive for a company to have materials shipped to another country for manufacture and then shipped to sell in the United States than to produce the materials and manufacture them in our own country. As shipping costs increase, the cost of manufacturing overseas increases, making the overpaid American worker more competitive with the overseas worker. Therefore, expensive fuel is good for American manufacturing. Therefore, shouldn't I support higher fuel prices to benefit American industries and production of raw materials closer to home? Since liberals favor higher gas prices, I searched amongst liberal blogs and websites for a theory similar to mine. Before an emergency run to the bathroom to cleanse my bowels of liberal diarrhea, I found only the alleged health and environmental benefits of decreased fuel consumption. The only mention of the high prices are as a means to decrease consumption. As I sat on the toilet, I realized something sinister was brewing in the smoke-filled rooms of liberal strategists. As we all know, liberals have been been trying to shut down the oil industry for over forty years. Liberal politics is based upon wealth envy. When the liberals see the wealth of the oil industry, a deep lust swells within them. We were supposed to have sucked the entire planet dry of all possible oil resources decades ago. Since that has never happened, liberals cut off our domestic oil production and refining capacity, hoping to someday make oil so expensive that it would be priced out of the energy market. With liberal control over all branches of our federal government coming this fall (regardless of election outcomes, let's have no illusions here), the price of oil will continue to rise as drilling and refining capacity stay just as they have been. As prices continue to rise and inflation runs out of control, the vast liberal conspiracy will finally come to its conclusion. With my bathroom proceedings completed, I realized the end goal of a liberal conspiracy that began long before I was born. We've heard about obscene windfall profits in the oil industry. Obviously, the oil industry has no right to make a profit, so the government must tax those profits. You would think that billions of dollars of profit stealing would be enough to placate the liberal greed. But why not just eliminate the middle man? Just ask Maxine Waters or Maurice Hinchey. They've started testing the waters, and they've found them disturbingly warm. Hinchey recommends that the refining of fuels be directly controlled by the federal government. Waters actually used the term "socialize" when discussing her plan for the future of the entire oil industry. I would like to say that there was a national outcry against this lunacy, but reaction has been pretty mild. After a few years of consistent price increases, the reaction will almost certainly be overwhelmingly positive. Especially with the crap our indoctrination system is feeding our kids and the open-minded. I sincerely hope I am wrong about all of this. I hope that my economic theory is grossly misguided and my suspicions toward the liberal takeover of the oil industry is paranoia. If you can do anything to prove me wrong, please let me know. I won't be able to sleep at night knowing I might be right.