Long before Q graced our lives, there was Michael Rupert whose theories, while not largely taken seriously, were a little less bananas than what we hear from the circle with a tail. Rupert said that in the US, the true God was Gold-Oil-Drugs. He believed that those things were what really drove the economy. It’s hard to deny the role of oil and other fuels in our lives. Today there is speculation that the big P in Russia is raising a Ukrainian stink in order to bring Europe to its knees over natural gas. The true power is in consumption — or the rejection of it. Oh, what life would look like if we all said, “No, we don’t want your oil.”