It's NOT Govt and Big Oil! It's Wall Street and Big Oil. Again, our bought-and-paid for Congress has relaxed regulations so that The Goldman-Sachs of this world can speculate on oil futures without ever having to take delivery of said commodity. All they're doing is driving up the price artificially. Supply and demand ...more

Well, ThoughisFree, I guess everybody has their price. You pay lower prices at Walmart, but  you're paying a higher social cost.  Lower wages for everyone and a race to the bottom. A first-world country (USA) can never win a labor war with a third-world country , especially if that country(China) has a billion people w...more

Good ol' SteveC60 and everybody else who blames the govmt still don't get it. All these trans-national corporations got you thinkin' just the way they want you to.  The root of the problem is too many lobbyists, too many moneyed special interest having WAY too much influence on Congress. Until we get the big money out ...more