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…ain’t just that long green strip cutting through the desert of northern Africa on Google Earth. As demonstrated by this survey widget from cleveland.com:

I think they left out one or two important options. Like, say, the bogeyman. Or the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Or perhaps the Jews, never overlook them.

And what about China, where are they? I suppose that including “China” as an option might veer too close to part of an actually plausible explanation, though, i.e. an increasing disparity between the dwindling supply of a finite resource and growing demand for said resource from rapidly-developing economies increasingly capable of backing up that demand with cash on the international oil market.

Nah, I’m just kiddin’ of course; that couldn’t have anything to do with it. Anyway, who is to blame for these rising gas prices, someone must be behind it all.

(As atrocious as the state of what passes for modern journalism is, I think it’s even more depressing that I basically predicted this exact fantasy with appalling accuracy three months ago. I suppose maybe the answer which really needs to be added to the choices is “the mainstreaming of willfully-ignorant, infantile know-nothingism in America…”)