OIL SURGES TO $500 A BARREL, RIOTS IN CONGRESS
By The Chuck
15 March 2028
WASHINGTON–Oil prices finally broke the $500 a barrel threshold, closing slightly lower at $499.69 by the end of the day. Once considered impossible by the petroleum market experts, the breaking of this barrier suggests the price of oil will never stabilize. After the markets closed, President Jose Villa called an emergency session of Congress.
“We’ve waited long enough! The increasing demand for oil, as our world has suffered the harshest winters in recorded history over the last decade, has drastically brought about our economic downfall. Now is the time to act. It might even be to late too undo the damage.”
President Villa’s critics were rebuked by thousand of protesters, who were able to rush past Capitol Police barricades. It took almost an hour to clear out the protesters, and another two hours to clear out the effects of the tear gas. Nevertheless the halls of congress were cleared and the session continued.
Since the implosion of the Democratic Party in 2012 and then the Republican Party in 2016, political debates have often erupted into violence. Fortunately during Friday’s clash, only three people were killed with less than thirty requiring hospitalization. Speaker of the House Jung Mao required medical attention from on-scene medics due to a head wound from a thrown brick.
Members of the America First Party accused Villa of organizing the violence by using supporters of his Norte American Republic Party. A fact he flatly denied.
“The people are just upset because the price of oil is destroying their lifestyles. I’m submitting a bill to congress that we harvest the 10.5 billion barrels of oil in ANWAR. In addition, the oil shale in Green River Basin contains nearly 2 trillion barrels of oil we can use. And finally, we need to drill the oil fields off the coast of Florida. We have been transferring our national wealth to foreign lands for too long.” The members of the Norte American Republic Party gave Villa a standing ovation. However there are many obstacles to overcome before this can become a reality.
Currently China, the largest economic power in the world, operates over a hundred oil platforms in the international waters off the coast of Florida for Cuban companies. It is not expected that the Chinese government will let any attempts by the US to drill in what has been their oil harvesting region for the last 20 years go without challenge.
President Villa is still a very popular leader and is expected to win his re-election bid later this year. Some noteworthy accomplishments were going back on the gold standard in 2025, fixing the value of gold at $3500 an ounce and then convincing India to allow a US astronaut to go along on their 2027 voyage to Mars.
Getting an American back into space was a moment of great national pride, especially after the humiliating eviction from the Moon by Japanese landlords in 2022. If the energy crisis can be overturned, the US might even restart their decommissioned space program, as long as they can get a permit from the United Nations space regulators.
Wait! It’s only 2008, and we still have time.
The United States has many challenges in front of us. If we don’t use things to our advantage, someone else will win the advantage.
It just makes sense.