Oil trades in dollars and with the printing presses running at the rate they are there is only one thing that's going to happen, devaluation of the dollar.  Oil is just reflecting the actual value of the dollar.

Supporting the Dems is quite simple, you only have to buy two premises - We are all victims incapable of doing for ourselves and life has no value.

Stuck in Kansas, You seem to have missed Clinton had 4 years of balanced budgets, and more importantly the luck of the calendar, Y2K.  Every level of the economy was over producing inventory for fear of what might happen on 1/1/2000. Once that passed without incident, then maunfaturing slowed to a crawl needing to ...more

I wonder how long it will be before it will be mandated that we buy a Volt or pay a fine, kind of like Obamacare.

remember "opinions are worth as much as they cost" except when Obama et al entered the auto industry and are using the taxpayers money to support his opinions.

Is it possible that the dems have decided that since we can't get our way on taxes, we'll take from the "wealthy" by letting the markets tank?

The real issue is why do we have a tax system that requires a return at all.  We should be seriously looking at a consumption tax that would treat everyone equally including the underground economy and eliminate the cost of the IRS.