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The Price of Petrol
The reason we protest at the price of fuel is because we do not
know how to advise our Government correctly. Protest may have some
slight value, but protest is no real substitute for wisdom.
To shoulder our personal responsibility for empowering wisdom into
our Statesmen, might feel like a heavy burden, but in fact that
game would be as much fun as cricket.
The real heavy burden descends upon us, when we duck out of our
responsibility and blame someone else. Do not imagine that I am
being obtuse, I am merely stating a few ground rules, which will
be required to devise the correct strategy for making it possible
to purchase the fuel we need without strain.
The first step, is to realise that because we use money as a means
of exchange, in order to obtain petrol or diesel out of a pump at
our garage, we need to know a bit about money.
This is because the whole problem with fuel is that we allow money
men to intrude into the action. Who are the money men and what do
they do!
The price of fuel at our garage is paid with money. If we choose
to be mystified by money, we pay through the nose as a result. In
simple terms most of what we pay for fuel goes in tax.
Tax is one form of money. Credit is another form of money. Interest
on credit is yet another form of money.
But credit cannot be used as money to pay tax, so the actual price
of fuel slides into the realm of mystery and we slide down scale
into protest instead of wisdom.
The money men make money and make us pay for its use. They get
us over a barrel for oil and screw us to death if we let them.
There it is, the source of all our grief and all because we choose
not to understand those very few words and leave money as a mystery.
Coalmines used to point downwards into the bowels of the Earth.
But the modern source of black gold points upwards into the sky.
"The upward pointing coal mine of this century, which is seriously
boosting the nation's wealth".
If you need to solve the mystery by which the modern alchemist
turns black gold into money in the City of London, without exchange,
then catch Professor Congdon in a good mood and he will explain.
Very black and out exchange.
Cricket in those City tower blocks is a fun game to play.
Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB
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