Originally posted by Raskolnikov

What are you talking about? I work full time and make about $270 a week after taxes. OVER HALF of that goes right into my rent, my electricity/water bill, and my phone bill. That leaves me with about $120, but of that I spend about $40 (sometimes $50) a week on gasoline leaving just $80-$70 for food and for spending money. Capitalism depends on people like me to be able to afford to spend money. If I spent less on gas, I could afford to buy stuff, I could travel more, I could eat at expensive restaurants, I could be a lot more profitable to a lot of businesses. But instead I have to watch my spending very carefully or I don't eat two days out of the week. In the past couple of years the price of gasoline has gone up about 50%. That increases EVERYBODY's overhead costs and HURTS the economy. Somebody has been feeding you a lot of crap.

No body is feeding me crap ... As a matter of fact , I'm more lucky than you when it get to stuff I get from media , cuz I watch both mine & yours and work up my mind to see the truth ... While you only feed on your crap.

Back to our point ... The U.S. is controling the price of oil through the Gulf Oil to ensure it doesn't sell so high , and no big trouble get into the american market like what happened 3 decades ago when the Gulf Countries stopped exporting oil for a short while.