Well, the hurricane ploy worked.   Many Americans are now scared shitless and missing work because there is no gas to be found.  The two counties around my house are dry as a bone.  
We have enough gas in our cars to get to and from work tomorrow, but then we'll be sitting.  It won't kill me to spend a few days (or a few more) at home, waiting out the crisis.  
A friend of mine whose brain I respect just said, "I'm not worried about it.  They're just holding us hostage.  There's plenty of oil."  I agree.  

But who is responsible???  Is our own government doing this to us, and if so, why pull something that is likely to throw us into a full-scale recession?  Are other countries (the oil ones) finally getting sick of the US and deciding to sit on all the oil and make us squirm?  I honestly don't know enough about the situation to comment, and the more I read and watch and try to learn about it, the more I realize that all the information out there is nothing but pure propaganda.

One day our country will see a(nother) real revolution.
I'll probably be alive to see it.