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<blockquote data-quote="AcidicDreams" data-source="post: 1778195" data-attributes="member: 558974">GASP! I didn&#039;t think anyone on here listened to reason... well that&#039;s cool.... someone with a truly open mind and some common sense. In any case there have been many investigations (sourced from state of california&#039;s department of something website and talk shows)...as for opec if they are running at full force and still getting record high prices lowering their production is not in their interest. Plus we may be hitting gasolines current price elasticity (the point where a raise in prices effects consumption) and raising prices further will curtail consumption... It is in every countries interest to begin securing oil supplies at least for the near future until there is a viable alternative. You see china doing it daily as they protect violent communist and socialist dicatators (not that we don&#039;t do the same) to protect their oil supplies. This is why they are protecting chavez and Iran...also it&#039;s hard to argue that oil didn&#039;t play into our strategy in iraq... whether it was though I would imagine it&#039;s not the main reason.. if it was we would have seen cheaper gas prices not higher.. I would hope the government understood this before the war</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AcidicDreams, post: 1778195, member: 558974"] GASP! I didn't think anyone on here listened to reason... well that's cool.... someone with a truly open mind and some common sense. In any case there have been many investigations (sourced from state of california's department of something website and talk shows)... as for opec if they are running at full force and still getting record high prices lowering their production is not in their interest. Plus we may be hitting gasolines current price elasticity (the point where a raise in prices effects consumption) and raising prices further will curtail consumption... It is in every countries interest to begin securing oil supplies at least for the near future until there is a viable alternative. You see china doing it daily as they protect violent communist and socialist dicatators (not that we don't do the same) to protect their oil supplies. This is why they are protecting chavez and Iran... also it's hard to argue that oil didn't play into our strategy in iraq... whether it was though I would imagine it's not the main reason.. if it was we would have seen cheaper gas prices not higher.. I would hope the government understood this before the war [/QUOTE]

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