National Callout To Subdue Oil Speculators

I have a plan.

Actually, we need to adopt a plan hatched just a few nights ago by Columbus resident James Pelfrey while discussing with me world affairs. It's called a plan of action to subdue speculators who continually and artificially drive up the price of oil at everyone's expense, and certainly not their own.

Here's the Pelfrey Plan: Every motor vehicle operator, every boat captain, every pilot, every kid with a power lawn mower, every farmer with a tractor, every motorcycle operator, the folks who operate military vehicles, every law enforcement agency, every trucker and anyone else who purchases fuel for any type of motorized vehicle during July 3-4, 2008 shall collectively fill their vehicles with gasoline and diesel fuel ---- then not purchase a drop of fuel for a period of seven consecutive days, or until the period of July 10-11.

It's known as a new Independence Day -- independence from commodity speculators who make billions of dollars by stealing money from the mouths of your children, preventing you from paying your mortgage or rent on time, forcing you to pay higher utility and food bills, and essentially attempting to force you into some type of economic repression that fattens their bank accounts at your expense.

Fill all the gas tanks, fill all the fuel containers and inundate the retail market with the largest ever single day purchase of motor fuels July 3-4, then shut down the bleeping industry and the oil speculators. Don't buy a single drop of fuel for one week and the result will be to put oil speculators and other commodity brokers on notice that consumers actually drive the market price --- not a handful of sideline bettors who risk nothing at your expense.

What the Pelfrey Plan will accomplish is to put speculators on notice that their day is done in setting the daily market price for oil and other commodities. It will serve notice that at any time and without warning, consumers will collectively take matters into their own hands and there no longer will be any safe bets on speculating about where commodity market prices shall go.

The Pelfrey Plan, if well implemented by American consumers July 3-4, will also serve notice to speculators of oil prices that a developing hurricane located 1,500 miles or more southeast of the Bahamas will not have any influence on daily market prices. If well implemented, the Pelfrey Plan also will serve notice to the nation's media industry that they too, will no longer influence daily commodity prices.

American consumers need to adopt and exalt the spirit of Howard Beale, a character portrayed by the late actor Peter Finch in the 1976 Sidney Lumet-directed film "Network". His noted phrase "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore" should today be America's collective refrain to put the commodity speculators out of business under the goal of the Pelfrey Plan.

Until the American consumer takes responsibility for its commodity consumption, its public relations imaging and its desired lifestyle --- there always we be the speculators and others who will profit from the inability of consumers to truly shape their economic realities by establishing new rules governing supply-side economics. And guess what, the fact American consumers will continue to believe the bullshit explanations offered by "economists" and "industry experts" as communicated ever so diligently 24/7 by the media industry (it's supply and demand?) is what gives the commodity speculators their power.

The Pelfrey Plan gives you, each and every American consumer, the opportunity July 3-4 to put these con artists to sleep with the fishes, if you fill your tanks with their motor fuels, then cut them off for just one week. Learn to make that sacrifice now and consumers collectively will recapture their power to influence commodity markets as supply and demand should truly dictate. Once you take off the heads of the oil speculators, the plan is to then move into other commodity markets such as housing finance and food prices and finally put an end to someone controlling your destiny, other than you -- the American consumer, the American citizen and you, the American family member.

Adopt the Pelfrey Plan and put speculators out of business. Buy all the motor fuels you can July 3-4, then shut down the oil and retail gasoline industry for a period of just one week out of the 52 weeks we have to live this year. You can do it and you can do it again later this year if needed to take back control of your own lives and not the ones that are being shaped by strangers who profit from their overt speculating.

It is time for American consumers to become mad as hell and not take this anymore.