Faud's been disabled with a stroke for 10 years and his 82 yr. old half-brother, Abdullah, has been running Saudi all this time. There is NO change in leadership. What we do have is a bunch of greedy speculators in the commodity markets who are bidding up the price and a do-nothing administration in bed with the oil companies. If W doesn't bring this to a halt by releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve, which is bulging at the seams, he can kiss the Republican majority in the House goodbye next year. Voters will get even at the polls for having to put $60 in the pickup truck so they can drive to work to pay more taxes. When the big truckers start to jack up their prices to pay for $3 diesel, inflation will show up in everything we buy very shortly now. That's when the excrement will hit the fan for the Republicans.
>Faud's been disabled with a stroke for 10 years and his 82 yr. old half-brother, Abdullah, has been running Saudi all this time. There is NO change in leadership.<
I understand what you are saying, but it's perception. The old king is now actually dead, setting the stage for the wolves to attack. Abdullah is himself an old man. He cannot rule for that long, and the Arabs are nothing if not patient people.
I agree with your points about greedy speculators and do-nothing Republicans.
There is NO reason whatsoever, beyond taxes and greed, for diesel to cost so much more than unleaded regular.
That is, unless you take into consideration the fact that the American sheeple don't realize that every extra cent the truckers have to pay, comes out of their wooley, complacent hides.
"What we do have is a bunch of greedy speculators in the commodity markets who are bidding up the price and a do-nothing administration in bed with the oil companies."
I expect this kind of idiocy in DU not in FR.
Oil is lower now than in 1979... I guess Carter was in bed with oil companies ... LOL.