Last year in the good old U.S.ofA. revenues from the selling of electricity reached almost
260 billion dollars. thats -
$260,000,000,000.00
It doesnt stop there. Its keeps going and going and going and going - year after year.
Imagine that. No wonder electric power production falls under national security.
But even with showing those kind of revenues the industry still gets government subsidies.
I wonder how much pollution that equates to?
Then theres crude oil imported into the U.S.A. each year.
Somewhere around 4 billion barrels at $35.00 a barrel.
$140,000,000,000.00
And it keeps going and going and going - year after year.
To think that I read in the news that one man killed another over $43.00
Makes me wonder what some of those "tycoons" are capable of. Come to think of it I dont have to stretch the imagination, we all know the name Saddam Hussein.
And the pollution keeps going and going and going - year after year. I could be wrong but it seems as though I heard somewhere that only 14% of the human population is as wealthy as the remaining 86%. That means only 840 million out of 6 billion humans on the planet Earth.
Imagine that you were a wealthy person and that you and your wealth were placed in a defined area with 7 other people chosen at random that were no where near as wealthy as you. If you had to choose one thing that you could take with you, what would it be?
I know, I know thats not really a fair qeustion. My point was to illustrate what it must be like for those 840 million extremely wealthy people to be stuck on Earth with the remaining 5 billion or so people. They are terribly out numbered. Little wonder that they started paying other people to guard them and thier wealth. It would seem that this is how government began. Possibly even religion. Most definitely the military.