Dude where's my oil?

I was having a rather polite conversation with one of the locals here in town when the conversation turned ugly. Seems he's a pink-o commie conspiracy theorist and doesn't really mind sharing his philosophies, no mater how off base or wrong they are.

There we were having a nice conversation about the weather, fishing (to my readers within striking distance of eastern NC Shad and Rock are running) and life in general when the conversation took a turn for the worse. He managed to switch over to the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and September 11th.

Most notably he kept citing the work, if you want to call it that, of Charlie Sheen, Ma Cindy and several Websites (I'm betting the DU and Daily Kos). First of, if you start citing celebrities as your sources of knowledge you're in trouble, more so if it's one of the Sheenlings that you're quoting.

Now if that wasn't bad enough he kept going on 'bout how the war is being fought over oil. Keeping the prices down so competitive alternatives aren't developed, allowing Bush and Company to continue to rake in their profits. When he hit that talking point I stopped him and asked him to step outside for a minute, where I showed him the going price for a gallon of gas.

Where's my cheap oil? I asked.

For some reason he didn't have a response.