I'm thinking maybe the "peasants without torches" is the way to go now. By that, I mean, as much as possible, don't burn fuel or natural gas or propane or whatever it is you use.
Go past tightwad to vindictive. The only way these people will learn is when they run out of places to put the stuff and have to start cutting production and contemplating layoffs. Write your congressman or senator and tell them you are going to postpone your travel plans (or whatever else you conservation plans ensue), not only because of the cost, but to protest the oligarchy.
The neat thing about folks like us - when times get tough, we can get tougher. We'll plant a garden when the produce goes out of reach at the store, we'll stay home when gas prices go through the roof, we'll chop wood, pull on sweaters, add insulation, etc, when heating prices reach confiscatory levels. (I don't want to see produce farmers go under, but when the price of a head of lettuce is goverened more by transportation and fuel than what the farmer gets for all his hard labor, something has to be done.)
In the big market crashes, it isn't folks like us jumping out the windows, it's the fat cats. We need to show them that we can throw the economy into a recession, and that they will be the losers, not us. And if your neighbor is getting hurt by all this, help him through.
I don't want to see government controls*, they could screw up a 1 car funeral, but until someone gets the idea that with big profits comes big responsibility, we have to, as much as possible, deny them the big profits.
Later,
Tom
* Politics, n, fr. Greek, "poly" - many, + "tics", ugly, blood-sucking parasites.
