IN: George W. Bush , Sarah Palin , Newt Gingrich , Sean Hannity , and the misguided Republicans who stayed behind to protest during the congressional recess are wrong . If the petroleum industry and their apologists in politics and the media get their way , and they pump the wells dry before turning to alternatives , a worldwide economic catastrophe will ensue . Had the leaders of the Carter and Reagan administrations been more courageous and foresighted following the last energy crisis , the shift from expensive and dirty fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy would be well underway . Instead , oil costs $ 110 per barrel , gas and diesel cost averages of $ 3.68 and $ 4.12 per gallon respectively in the United States , and the transition from petroleum has hardly begun .
Why is the narrator so pessimistic about the United States ?

OUT: They do n't like the price of oil .

IN: Shady side of the city , 1 AM , humming Mariah Carey 's Touch My Body when I felt something hit my back . A metal pipe . One guy tried to snatch my phone from my hand . Another guy grabbed my shirt from the back and pulled it over my face .
What part of the city is the narrator in ?

OUT: The scary part .

IN: She needs some NOW ! because she had already started the washer , and as I ' m telling her that all I have is in my trunk and it 's that stuff she ca n't use in our washer because she told me so a couple weeks ago she 's trying to get me to get up from my bed and get out to my car to get it . and so very slowly , so slow i ' m slower than a sloth slow , i get up from my bed and go down the hall mumbling about how i ' m moving . not moving as in , i ' m leaving my house moving , but moving as in i ' m moving down the hall , making movement , moving .
Why are some mad with the narrator ?

OUT:
They are moving slow .