To save his mussie friends 0bama will nationalize the oil industry and set prices higher so OPEC can undercut our oil industry and basically drive them out of business. To save the planet and all.
Yep, the price is too high. The Saudis need to drill more holes in the same fields and increase the supply, until their competition can no longer finance operations with junk debt.
And meanwhile fuel prices are skyrocketing on the Rockies in advance of tourist gullibility season. The powers that be figure that if tourists are soaked enough, they won’t have anything left back home to prepare for TEOTWAWKI and rebel.