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Originally posted by iamnormal
I see you didn't learn anything. How you act and how I act dosn't matter. Its a globle thing that need to change in a globle way. The raising of gas prices is the start of it.
I'm not a tree hugger so no need to pull your soapbox out. 
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so again, I'm going to ask instead of being nebulous, please discuss it. I looked at all your posts here on the TFP and most of them are just single one line things like this quip.
I'm asking you to please educate me with what you have to bring to the table, not tell me "google it and if you can't figure it out you must just not get it." redlemon with just a couple more lines educated both kutulu and me on OPEC and it's members and how we are now controlling a seat there for the moment. I'm asking that you contribute in the same manner.
Now based on the small amount you did present back to us, you are correct it does not matter. What you or I do is insignificant. I travel frequently abroad and I know that we Americans have it good as far as prices of gasoline are concerned. My world for me? I have some interesting economic views, one of them, I'd love to see gasoline prices hit $5-$7/ gallon (I would also like to see DOW drop to 5,000) Why? Because all those speeders, SUVs, people cruising up and down the boulevards if they paid through the nose they'd not drive like that. When I lived in Singapore and it cost $50/tank to fill up a Toyota Corona, I thought thrice every time I wanted to go somewhere. Was all that cost going to the refineries and oil cartel? Nope most went to the government as taxes. The car itself was taxed 250% sales tax. Why? Because they wanted to discourage car ownership.
The government makes out like bandits as the price is climbing, because they get the 9/10s of a cent plus all the other taxes added onto the tank.
The only issue that I have is the instability of the prices. The prices flucuate waaaay too much for a commodity that should be very stable.