Here’s some lines from the chorus in my song from “Why Weren’t We Warned“:
“But the truth was kept hidden,
The lies in control.
The crisis kept building,
Why weren’t we told?”
The oil crisis is very, very rapidly growing. Those in control know it, but keep downplaying the situation and telling lies to cover up the warning signs. I am going to provide a specific example from U. S. Energy Secretary Wright in a moment, but let me first explain why this is infuriating to me.
Imagine you come home and there is a roaring, uncontrolled wildfire 1,500 feet down the road from your house. You ask the nearest firefighter if it is safe to remain home. He assures you the the fire is under control (it’s not), and that it is safe to enter your home and go to sleep.
Two hours later, your house burns to the ground with you still in it.
In my personal opinion, you would have been much better off if the “authorities” had given you the truth, and told you that “no, it isn’t safe, the fire is out of control, and you should take precautions.”
But hey, that’s just me.
So now that brings me to Secretary Wright.
But first, some back-of-the-napkin numbers. I’ve worked construction all my life. If I got my estimates/price quotes wrong, I paid the price. I’ve learned that it’s important to be pretty darn accurate.
According to satellite images, pumping station 9 in Saudi Arabia that was destroyed in the last 48 hours, covered between 40 and 60 acres. That doesn’t include the accessory buildings. It was a BIG facility.
Let’s go with the facility was 40 acres. That’s not 40 acres of parking lot, that’s 40 acres of pumping station. 40 acres contains 1,742,402 square feet. In comparison, the Empire State Building contains 2,768,591 square feet.
So this pumping station (I know this is comparing apples to oranges, but this is just to provide a conceptual reference) is roughly 62% as big as the Empire State Building – which took 1 yar and 45 days to build – is going to be rebuilt in just a couple of days?
Seriously, just a couple of days?
