Who is to blame for the high oil prices?

And please dont say OPEC!;-)Who is to blame for the high oil prices?
One must consider who is really pulling the stings both politically and financially!





The world bank has a lot to do with what is going on in the world! and then of course there are these people!





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If this is news to you, you should look into it.Who is to blame for the high oil prices?
It's hard when you say don't say OPEC, because they set the price of oil. Because of the WEAKNESS of the American dollar and supply and demand why they WONT lower gas prices. A bunch of Republicans(they blame democrats) will scream ';those tree hugging democrats won't let us drill on our own reserves';. However when compared to US consumption of oil, our oil reserves would only cover a FRACTION(5 to 15%) of what we actually consume.
The best answers to this question must be expected to be very much the same as the best answers to the question





';Who gains the most from energy policy


stuck as essentially just oil policy?';





There are only two kinds of people effecting energy use in your life by now in this country.


People who talk about making our energy infrastructure more versatile, and people who are making our energy ifrastructure more versatile.





Most politicians and especially large energy companies are very much in that talking and very little in the doing.





Which is why, after 30 years of being fairly well aware of what's happening, now when you drive around cross country today 99% of energy outlets are still selling you only petrolium.





In your daily life you can mostly consume


1. petrolium from one of the innumerable petrolium outlets


2. electricity from a telephone pole


3. Natural gas if you have a pipe instead of a wire to your neighborhood's stoves.





Ain't nearly-pure capitalism great?
Politicians with a global warming agenda. Seems like environmental lobbyist have more pull with them than the welfare of the American People.
The bad guys who own our banking system. This is the third time the bad guys have manipulated oil price increases, the others occurred in 1973 and 1978. It is a complex conspiracy and people have posted the answers above. Cheney's Oil and Gas Commission engineered the Enron collapse and reduced competition. Exxon Mobil types deliberately shutting down refineries, production and stockpiling. US bombing Darfur oil supplies and other oil supplies around the world. Bad guys cutting off oil supplies from Mexico and Venezuela. Bad guys passing laws that take product off the market. Oil companies deliberately not drilling for oil. It boils down to near do well wanna bees working for the devil doing their best to steal from their fellow man. Junk humans doing what they do best.
speculators on the market.


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http://www.financialsense.com/editorials鈥?/a>


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1660鈥?/a>


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080527/pl_n鈥?/a>


http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n034123鈥?/a>





read the articles and you will see the truth.
Bush, Cheney's Energy Panel and the oil companies stockpiling so the prices can go up.





Also, the OPEC nations that were set up by the West to gouge the West.





And the lack of alternatives provided by the US leadership that had an agenda.
Lots of folks in the rogue's gallery. Oil companies, lack of refineries, increased foreign consumption, speculators, gas taxes, political gridlock, geo-political instability, and good old fashioned back luck.
Democrats.





Do none of you twits listen to Nancy Pelosi when she SWORE to lower gas prices in 06?





After all that's all I heard harped upon by the Democrats how they would ';Lower the price';





What a bunch of lying scum
all the oil producing countries and the gas producing corporation that have jack the price up on American because of their greed .
Speculation and demand. Hopefully with China increasing the gas price by 17% this will help slow down demand. It's still around $1.00 a gallon cheaper in China then America. Now all we need to do is have India follow suit.
Great topic. Got a problem..........Who can we blame?





Nice stuff.........





How about nobody? Lets just work on getting them down or working around them......
Not OPEC.
Republicans....
As President Bush said, it's our addiction to oil.
B U S H and his WAR...
Us.


Our high demand and our weak dollar.