[CitizenUSA]

OIl companies that didn’t plan for the possibility of such a downturn and banks that loaned those companies money should pay the price for their foolish decisions. During feasts you prepare for famines. I write this as someone who has invested in oil companies. They should have prepared for something like this. It doesn’t take a genius to know the Saudis weren’t going to stand by and do nothing while the oil shale industry made America an energy exporter.

[lafroste]

Of course, you are right, they should have done that, and I should have listened to my dad and gone into computer science instead of chem eng. The point is that they didn't, and they didn't in such a spectacularly foolish way that it has endangered all of us. That's all I meant to say.