[MinuteGal]

# 7....it's getting closer to election.

Leni

[EverOnward]

Your word to God’s ear.

[Diogenesis]

8. All Alternative energy production sources encouraged.

9. Corruption and obstruction (while secretly moving US technology offshore) at the US Patent Office ends.

10. Additional nuclear reactors planned

11. ANWAR drilling begins

[usconservative]

Saudi Arabia, home to the world's largest reserves, is pumping at full capacity.

Incorrect. Saudi Arabia is 2,000,000 barrels under their daily capacity.

Their "increase" of 300,000 barrels daily several months ago was a proverbial drop in the bucket compared to their capacity under-run, and likely simply accounted for the overage they were already pumping.

[usconservative]

Here's an idea.

Call me crazy, but how about stopping the "speculator driven" hedge-funds that have unnecessarily driving up the price of oil?

In a consumer-driven free-market economy that we live in, why do we allow market manipulation like this to occur?

[Nervous Tick]

0. The speculative bubble could go "pop"!

[Drew68]

7. China and India, feeling sympathetic to the plight of suffering SUV-driving Americans, abandon their 3 cylinder, 1200 pound automobiles and return to bicycles and rickshaws for transportation.

[abclily]

The price of oil will plunge when environmentalist freakos run out of cash to buy our treacherous politicians who deny us the right to pump our own oil.

[mysterio]

I’m not counting on this. We need and energy independence moonshot. Give oil a competitor. Competition works.

[Eye of Unk]

I can think of another reason.

Using oil as a fuel source in itself will be obsolete, when the big oil companies find out they no longer have the cojones of the world in their hands because in some lab right now there is people developing processes that will be a historical turning point for the human race.

And the Saudis know it and are afraid, they will make as much as they can any way they can before the bubble bursts.

[mad_as_he$$]

I believe the “experts” underestimate the effect of $4/gallon gas on summer vacations. This weekend alone travel by car is off 15-20% and many have shortened trips. A crew of relatively well off guys I know have a rendezvous this weekend, every year about 200 miles from here. They moved it to within 50 miles for the first time in 20 years because of the cost of fuel. I see very few fill-ups at the C-store and the Quick Stops here used to be packed and now you can easily get gas with no wait.