If you can remember back to the 70’s when there was an energy addiction that made for an energy crisis.  We all started to think of ways to kick our oil habit like alt energy, wind, solar and other energy saving measures and for awhile we were moving in the right direction and were kicking the monkey on our backs.  But unfortunately we fell off our wagon.  The pushers, the oil companies, in the 80’s made the price of gas and oil cheaper and we stated thinking that we were not all that bad for the addiction.  It was something that we could live with.  We wanted our 4 gallon to the mile Hummers.  We began feeding our need heavier than before.

Then one day we awoke from of addict induced haze toi find that our drug of choice was now $4+ a gallon.  Once again, we realized that we were sick and needed to find a way to eliminate the joneses.  We were once again JUNKIES.  We sat down and decided we were gonna do something about our addiction this time, that we would break our dependence on the drug.  Everyone one started thinking sbout alt energy, solar, wind, and energy saving measures.  Smaller cars, better gas mileage, even nukes.  we even got the two major parties thinking along those lines and were gonna be there to help us break our addiction.  Once again we were feeling good about our choice to end our addiction.

One morning the pushers awoke to find that they would be in deep financial trouble if they lost their Johns.  Their user base was shrinking, ever so slowly, but shrinking nonetheless.  The market manipulation started again, drop the price to ridiculous low price and the junkies would not be able to resist.  Slowly the price started down not to appear too eager, but enough for the addicts to get a whiff of the “good stuff”.

Looks like the addiction will build again.  The worsening economy will slow the roll of the addicts.  No money–No drug.  There is a bright spot for the pushers–the credit markets, but first they have to have help to ge tthem to loosen up so that the junkies can get the drug more readily.

The addict is returning.  How long will this drug induced haze last this time?  The saga goes full circle, never a lesson learned from the last bout of addiction.  An addict will always remain an addict.