We just booked our tickets to Paris and I’m already feeling guilt that I’ll increase my carbon foot print come October. It only got worse after I found this fools-errand email yesterday in my mailbox. Read it here. Knick another notch for America on the fear-monger stump. I’m feeling another need to rant so bear with me.

So now it’s the ‘Speculators’? Are they drawing the new evil axis with Iran, causing an oil price crisis and potentially reducing my freedom to get a pack of on-board, stale peanuts?

Who are these phantom speculators? Now 12 airline CEOs are begging me to ask the government for protection from somebody I don’t even know exists? It’s time to suck up to the cold reality that instability in the middle east, inflation and a dwindling supply are the real causes for blame.

How about getting off my back about speculators and start backing innovative technology. I want you to help support a real free market not limit it. You want me to use your product, then tell me that I will be booking my next flight on an airplane, which is more efficient than an automobile.

I’m also appalled that we’re back on the offshore oil drilling bandwagon. But of course, let’s knock down any gained wisdom for ass-backwards thinking. Shall we review again: Offshore oil drilling will NEVER help with high oil prices or sew the holes in Americans’ pockets. The government already knows that new drilling off our coasts won’t deliver oil for another 7-10 years and still, may only reduce the price by a few pennies.*

I think this email was it for me. If this how they want to invest their (my) time, I’m not impressed. I don’t know why I’m a “Skymiles” member either. I’m always left disappointed, having never ‘cashed’ in my mile points to get that 10,000 mile lollipop I never wanted to begin with.