Filmmaker Chris Hume heads to Pennsylvania on Day 10 of Red State Road Trip part 2. He talks to truckers who are paying upwards of $1,000 to fill their tanks while oil companies like Exxon reap massive profits. In 2007 the oil company earned a record profit of $40 billion and profits in 2009 are expected to double. As one of the truckers says, "someone’s playing around with the prices."
And arson is on the rise. Homeowners are burning their homes. Hume talks to Joe Toscano, an arson investigator about why the economic perfect storm is about more than just the foreclosure issue. Red State Road Trip is a Shoot and Run Productions. More episodes of this crosscountry opus can be seen online at Red State Road Trip #2.
I fear the Repug plan is too steal everything they can before it’s over and anything they can’t steal they will destroy. Classic scorched earth retreat.
By JayBur on July 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
since when is PA a red sttae?
By Beerfart Liberal on July 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
PA may not be red like Idaho, but it is deeply red-biased purple. All working-person political advocates must view it as a likely loss to the dumbshits comprising the mindset of the numberless dumbshit neighborhood bars of the small towns and suburbs of PA. Occasionally, said inhabitants wake up to the fact that Wall Street doesn’t represent them, but that can never be assumed to transpire. Yes, I know more than a little about PA.
By gannonguckert on July 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
As easy as it is to get angry at Big Oil – and I’ll admit it’s awfully easy – the major reason that gas and diesel prices are going through the roof isn’t corporate greed. It’s supply and demand. Demand around the globe is increasing, while oil supplies have been flat since 2005. Couple stagnant supplies with rising demand and prices go up dramatically. This particular phenomena is called Peak Oil. Get used to it. We’re at the very top of the worldwide oil production curve, and global oil supplies are poised to shrink. Which means that gas and diesel prices will continue to go up, and up, and up. So will the costs of food, airline tickets and everything we ship across the country or around the world. The only sane short-term response is conservation.
By wolfcreek on July 15th, 2008 at 1:18 am