I don’t know that going to war for oil and going to war for low oil prices are quite the same. Oil companies making world record shattering profits for any company in any business ever in any field says to me that the oil companies like what’s happening, and that it was for their sake, not the consumers, that there’s been war in an oil rich nation. They don’t want $20 a barrel, they want $200, plus their little markups.

The bad guys have been targeting Nigeria’s infrastructure and delivery capacity, so now we have to deal with OPEC like the rest of the world. OPEC has a virtual monopoly, which would easily be broken if we would start tapping into the resources on the Alaskan North Shelf, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, and throughout the Rockies.

Supply and demand. There is a lower/less stable supply, and China and India (with 35-ish% of the world’s population) has suddenly become very thirsty for oil. We’ve been getting a free ride from Nigeria, but now there are more customers in the marketplace.

It doesn’t feel as good as beating on the oil companies and their 8% profits, but them’re the facts.

Want lower prices? Start drilling. If you’re a good little Darwinian, you’ll recognize that weaker species should adapt or die.

The fun thing aboutt these comments I leave is that you can never be sure which parts are sarcasm.

…since obviously, to hold an opinion contrary to your own must make me some kind of clown.

Broaden your horizons, and you’ll see that there are several sources out there who disagree with your assessment. And no, they don’t all start with “Fox”.

There’s no lie at the pump. Every time I watch the news, I always hear about how oil is going up in price yet again, essentially breaking a record daily anymore. And hey, it wasn’t that long ago that you could call $1.30/gal “high” as opposed to breaching $4, and don’t even talk about diesel fuel too. I personally feel bad for truckers since they’re feeling the pinch the hardest of us all, to the point where several are actually quitting their jobs, reducing the number of truckers on the road, which then drives the prices of everything else up. So hey, that means that the threat of more expensive gasoline is a bigger threat than you’re thinking!

But oh, that must be a lie too. Funny, then that must mean the rest of the world has had the wool pulled over its eyes.

Oh yeah, and for your clicking pleasure, here’s a link I found not but a few lines below the picture. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/business/21oil.html?em&ex=1211515200&en=4d393307f7d22e7e&ei=5087#

Isn’t it nice what some reading can do for you?

(just playing with you)

But we went to war with Iraq to KEEP our unrealistic prices.

WTF happened?

No lie.

Welcome to the club. You didn’t really think $2.00/gallon could laste forever, did you??

Shine on, doomboy.

HA! like that will ever happen. my cynicism, let me show u it.

Time to take after Tibet and start using those bikes, eh?