Wag the Dog: Big oil and the big 3

[ASH]

My wife actually came up with this idea and it won't leave me alone, so I'll throw it out and see if we can have some funn with it.

Please do not think I am attempting to be a troll in any way here.

USA sold tons of great big vehicles for zillions of dollars very successfully for several years and everyone was happy. Great marketing campaign.........OK, now what's next to keep the momentum going.

Well, how about we make it look like we are all running out of oil and spike the price of oil so now the oil folks all make zillions of dollars. Then all the people will panic at the price of gas and guess what, they will dump all those gas guzzling cars and buy new ones. Yeah, they'll all buy little bitty ones that get 35 miles to the gallon (We'll hold out with the 50mpg+ for the next round) and can't pass a real crash test. Win-win for big oil and the big 3, right?

Do you suppose it is possible for all the right people to get together and pull something off like this?

:scratch: ;-)

 

[scooterbug44]

Anything's possible, but since the auto manufacturers make their $ on SUVs and are taking a massive hit because they didn't see this coming I doubt it.

 

[Miss Kitty]

I am with scootyb...I guess just about anything could be thought of as a conspiracy theory.

I still heart my Exxon stock. It was given to me when I was a baby by my Great Grandparents...of course, it was Standard Oil of New Jersey back then...I am old. I still tell Mr. K that the stock was the "oil well" I spoofed him into believing was in our backyard when I took him home to Houston for the first time.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Were you wearing your tin foil head apparatus when you got this thought?

 

[ASH]

It wasn't mine! I swear!

 

[Miss Kitty]

Were you wearing your tin foil head apparatus when you got this thought?

...that looks like a swommy mommy! I think maybe I ate tin foil as a baby and that is why I am like this.

 

[ASH]

Will you be giving lessons at the next sioree on how to build that hat Aleonard? Cuz, then I'm in.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Will you be giving lessons at the next sioree on how to build that hat Aleonard? Cuz, then I'm in.

I'm afraid mine won't look that nice. More like I just wrapped the roll around my head a whole bunch of times.

 

[Miss Kitty]

...oh, you were talking to ASH.

 

[ClintClint]

Wish you had downloaded and attached the theme music for The Twilight Zone to this thread