The Price of Gas and the end of the game

I was sitting at the bar in Bernie’s Bar feeling a bit disgusted; I had just paid $37 for a tank of gas. The door swung open and Max Angst strode in a sour look on his face.
“You don’t look happy Max. What’s the matter?” I asked.
“ I just was raped at the gas station he answered. $3.57 a gallon for gas. Damn that Bush; this is the final straw!”
“ Bush? What has Bush got to do with the price of gas.”
“Oh Art! I thought you were sharper than that. Damn it man George Bush, and Dick Cheney his evil mentor, are the direct representatives, the agents of the oil industry. With them where they are the oil industry knows it can do anything it wants, charge any price they want. Bush and Cheney have given the oil industry their permission to rip us off and they are doing it. The really nasty aspect of this situation is the failure of the media to blame Bush and Cheney for this robbery. It proves the oil industry—Bush and Cheney—control the media, too.
“Gee, Max I never thought of it that way. Bush and Cheney both came out of the oil industry. Haliburton is one of the biggest oil drillers in the world.”
“Yeah, and Papa Bush is big in the industry, too. His connection with the Saudi Royal family and the Carlyle Group gives him immense stature in that industry. He could, if he chose, put the price of gas wherever he wants it.”
“This stuff scares me Max. Do you think our country will ever return to the land of liberty it once was?”
“Art, I believe the rest of the world has caught on to what the forces behind Bush, Cheney are up to. Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela are on to them and ready to challenge them. If the American people catch on too, and the last election points in that direction, their going to have to lighten up their game a great deal if they have any sense at all. But maybe they don’t have any sense, some things point in that direction; then it could be the end of everything. Remember they have ten thousand atomic bombs.