Uh OPEC is the top dog in the oil bidness

Thats right Canadian...... you blame the big old bad ugly Oil companies.....Waaaaaa
Those big old bad ugly mean oil companies, ....... are public companies.
Unions, Pension funds, IRAs, etc.......they all own shares in the big mean nasty Exxon-Mobile.

Public companies.......  That also pay a dividend to the shareholder.

*V*V*V  waaaaaaa

unreal.

@ Imperial...and it will go up again as the economies of the world begin to pick up steam......IF....there is no more supply to the market.

Drill baby Drill.

Let GOV.  PALIN  run the Dept. of Energy........ think OBAMA is bi-partisan enough for that ??

Agreed....it is AMAZING how low the price is,.... given what it takes to get that gas in my SUV.....my fuel oil into my house......all those plastics/petrolium based products...

amazingly low, INHO

CANDADIAN.
Ever wonder what the GOVT. MANDATED Ethenol requirements have done to the balance of Farming based commodities ??

No....you dont. ....  Im sure.

[flame]

sea algae is the best, becase you can farm in it cubic meters

"put me in frozen stasis and wake me up when the average person is allowed to, able to afford, and able to have installed a hydrogen fuel producing machine in their basement connected to a rain catchment / rain water filtration machine connected to electricity producing solar panels and wind generators on a detached suburban home with an ample yard to grow all the vegetables and fruit a family of 6 would need to satisfy their calorie intake and and a hydrogen-powered flying car - all affordable on single, minimum wage salary."

you know how much energy you'd consume in cryosleep, you hog?

420
that 80% to 1% doens't make sense given the volume of trading over the last 20 years, compared to the previous 80.  When the Dow traded 3000 shares a day, maybe...but not at 14000

If you had .......  You can have.....  can anyone say OBAMA !!!
Anything is possible in America.

Or, one can just say waaaaa, I need this.

Govt.  ....  get the hell out of my way, and let me do what I can do.

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Yell?  Why did you edit Imperial and my posts?  Your censorship in this case is entierly unwarranted.  It was a legitimate question, not just meant to flame, no bad language, no reason to censor it.  Yell, you have violated our right to free speech.  It was not hate-speach, it was in no way 'harmful' to anyone.  You have demonstrated abuse of your mod power, and for that your moderation priveledges should be revoked, in my opinion.  Would other mods please review the posts and verrify that censorship was not warranted.

Imperial.  You implied in your post that was so rudely interferred with that the people who simply continue to live their lives in subjugated oppression are lazy.  Your implication is that if they were not lazy they would be able to attain more freedom and a better life for themselves.  However, perhaps the apathy of modern, developed society is not a product 'laziness'  Perhaps it is not a matter of the populace being to 'comfortable' in their decadent living in developed society.  I don't think it is as simple as that. the tendancy for populations in the developing world with populations with far less 'comfortable' standard of living are just as apathetic as those in developed societies.  The vast majority of ALL people regardless of their standard of living suffers from the same sort of apathy that led the holocaust victims so quietly to the gas chamber.

So what was it that made them apathetic, and thus imprisoned by their apathy?

Ghandi's notion of freedom involved a dualistic notion: inner freedom - that is becoming free within your own self, and outer freedom - that is being free to pursue your life (within reason) without interference from others.  His notion of freedom involved the concept that one can only be free outwardly in direct proportion to how free they are inwardly, and, therefore, the first and foremost struggle for freedom is an individual, personal, and / or spiritual struggle within the individual's mind, and / or soul.  The primary means by which this inward struggle for inward freedom is attained is by using one's rationality to deconstruct and analyse one's personal fears, and expose the roots of those personal fears for what they really are.  In that way, one can overcome one's personal fears.  In doing so, one often witnesses their level of outward freedom naturally increase, without effort, without struggle, and above all, without violence.

Now, if outward freedom is atainable by overcoming one's personal fears, why do people in comfortable, modern, decadent, developed society have a kind of apathy allowing for them to be manipulated and led to slaughter like the holocaust victims?  Aren't people in the developed world free?  Where are the guards motioning them foward towards their doom?  Where are the gass chambers, the furnaces?

Well, people in developed nations and developing nations alike are all well-aware of know what the doom that awaits us is.  It is a combination of 'threats' that we are bombarded with by the mainstream media on a daily basis: climate change, nuclear war, terrorism, chemical pollution in foods, cancer, aids, etc., etc.,

It is a myth that the holocaust victims were unaware of the fate that awaited them.  There were ample stories going around, many eye-witness accounts being retold, plenty of 'rumours' of where it was they were being taken and what awaited them.  These same stories and rumours were, often disbelieved, sometimes believed, but, and this is the point, these rumours were always FEARED to be true.

The holocaust victims, like ourselves, were likewise quite aware of their fate as they were forced forwards to their doom.  Not all of believe a nuclear war is on the horizon. Not all believe humanity will be wiped out by a new virus.  But we all fear it will happen, and this fear of these evetualities paralizes us, and stops us from taking even the smalles measures at preventing them.

So, Imperial, it is not laziness which stops us.  It has nothing to do with how comfortable our lives are.  It is fear, the fear of the many dark future scenarios we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our media, the inward fear within so many individuals, the inward chains which must, somehow be broken, if humans are to overcome the collective apathy of their whole human race.