This is not paranormal and I apologize.  I just have no where else to reach an audience. 

I have just been reading about oil prices and we are in a time where demand has no effect on the price of oil. Oil is being speculated just like any other commodity and the speculators are buying as much as they can to sell at later high prices. My thought is this. These speculators have to store their oil someplace, even if it is in the ground with sand all around it. This has got to cost money. I may be wrong but I think we can set a goal to hurt the speculators. 

Don't let the news or government say we are addicted to oil. It is a commodity we also need and is being controlled by those who buy the crude, and not the producers. This is just like the frozen orange juice scam in the 1983 movie Trading Places. If you control the flow, you control the price. But, I got to thinking. Demand has risen but so has production. Not on the scale that the current pump prices reflect but simply a slight rise in demand met by a rise in production. If we can start cutting back just a little, the speculators may have to start paying to store their crude oil. That will cut into their profits. People like T. Boone Pickens can afford it---for a while. So can the refiners but then they might bail out on such far sighted speculation.   Right now they are laughing at us because we are blaming the producers (the Arabs.).

I am trying. I bet I don't spend $20.00 worth of personal gasoline every 2 weeks. When I make a trip, I buy whatever I may need for the next few days. Then I park the car. If I was closer to anything, I would get a bike for short trips. Unfortunately, there are no short trips around where I live. The whole oil shortage is just a scam.   When the speculators start losing money, they will switch back to the frozen orange juice control.

The Saudi's need the money to keep their economy going just like everybody else. The Chinese will be able to afford high prices for a while.  But if we buy as little of those lead based child toys as we can and try to look for anything made in America ( I know it is hard) we can also play them out.  It takes a lot of money to buy fleets of Rolls Royces or stables full of fine horses. When the Olympics come on TV, when there is a commercial, switch the channel for a few minutes, even if it is to watch a different commercial.  You cable box will reflect your change of channels during the sponsors' commercials.  Simply switching channels during a commercial is a significant action.  It shows displeasure with the sponsors and they are acutely tracking our movements on TV.

Whether I am republican, democrat, liberal, conservative or libertarian doesn't matter.  Ronald Regan, if nothing else, had more faith in the American people than anyone in the world.  It only takes a little effort on our part and we can win this thing.  America, as a group, cannot be defeated in anything if it is united.  Refuse to do business with anything foreign for a while unless it cannot be replaced with something made here.  This is not a long term goal.  This is a short term goal but it will have its effects.  We can do something individually.

Sorry for the rant but I just have had enough.  Nitewing