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OIL

Control CFCs or ignore tomorrow’s problems and the rich will join the poor or starvin’.
Whether you toil in the soil or you’re royal’s the same thing.
“I love this crowd! Is this an audience or oil painting?”
Grief has four sections: Denial, Anger, Depression and Acceptance.
Science Guise’ll diagnose we’re headed for the second.

So chew on that and masticate.
Procrastinate makes what should go first go last and wait.

Whether oil peaks in 1960 or 2040 is weeks by cosmic standards.
Autos transferred from horses and’ll go back when oil depletes.
Antiques are scared stiff. “The edge of a plateau looks a lot like a cliff.”

Hindsight’s 20/20.
Finite can be many.
It took a century to drain the oil but there’s other fossil fuels.
CH4 has the smallest molecules.
Act now and change is still possible!

Millions of years ago, before land was man-owned,
plankton sank in to porous sandstone.
Inside the sediment, it changed to other elements as layers settled in.

Top rock is called the cap.
Oil and gas got trapped.
Now businessmen search for new veins to tap.

When wells slow down, oil’s cut with water.
UV from the sun makes the greenhouse hotter.
Infrared wavelengths from the ground, too long to pass through glass,
get trapped inside. In the same way, Earth gets over-hot from gas.

Whales, coal and timber burnt for tinder.
Global warming makes a colder winter.
Chernobyl warning didn’t hinder.
Nuclear may be cleaner than coal cinders as a whole
but neither is ideal so slow your roll!
You can’t love the first and hate the latter.
There’s always an effect when you change a state of matter.
We took the gas out the grounds and put it in the skies.
The morass compounds as China industrializes.
Demands can’t, and never again, will meet supplies.

Carbon forms as branched chains, straight chains and closed rings.
Two families: Alkanes and Alkenes.
As the structure varies, so does its production of things.
iPods, swings, fork and knife at the chip shop.
It’s hip-hop like Crip talk to wash out that Ziplock!

World War 2 was more than just gypsy or Jew. The US, an economilitary giant, grew.
Clinton undermined the Kyoto Treaty but W withdrew.
In Kyoto, Japan, they devised a plan to go low on co-two emissions, rather than a ban.
Tough systems would measure with computers but if the world’s worst polluters won’t sign, then that treaty’s neuter.

OPEC holds back, it is viewed, for kopeks, so next Iraq got jacked for its crude.
150 billion barrels. Arab apparel’s a ‘kaffiyeh,’ not a ‘towel.’

After 1,2, or 3 wars, oil will still be a nonrenewable resource.

Now we pay for our follies. Car corp.s took out hemp and trollies.
It’s a fix, both politics and getting out jollies. Who predicts
the new immigration when sky inflicts fire and desertification,
famine and flood, islands go glug, and malaria spreads to new areas from bugs?

We survive guided by stars.
Not enough to drive hybrid cars.
Respect arrives for this hide of ours.
Back on the range, attraction’ll change.
Shaved arm, waxed back, is bad for survival.
A strong women’ll keep you alive a lot longer.
Leave behind what’s too heavy, tv, torah or a bible.

Tribes’ll form from themselves. No resources for photovoltaic cells.
Too late for remorse that Natives can no longer help.

All things go in a circle. We work all day to pay what you burgle.
Yesterday is history, twist a tree and listen to Mr. B!

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from Full Buck Moon Kaboom, released September 1, 2008

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