| This was what happened, and why you heard people saying things like 'I've got some barrels in my garage we could use.' I reiterate that not once ever have gas/oil speculators lowered prices because they went too high, but they damn sure froze prices when they thought they were dipping too low. I seem to remember people saying back when it 'dipped too low' (speculators'/tycoons' words) that they most certainly would retard prices if they went too high. They pinky-double-scouts'-honor swore. Never happened. Especially scummy because oil prices affect everything. I believe it was late 90s, the last time gas dipped to $1/gal and below. It didnt last but a few days but to hear the oil companies cry it was the end of times and they were going bankrupt. As an aside has anyone seen the Dubai videos of the children of these tycoons getting bored and racing/flipping/destroying $500k+ cars? If not search Saudi super car stunts/flips/races/wheelies/crashes/whatever. Obviously oil prices are priced accurately and the companies/families that own them are making the slimmest of margins, we should cut them slack- oh wait, that's every business now. I hate what humanity has become. |