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Terrorism is what has caused all this mess with the markets to begin with.

And...I'm sorry but, if oil is a vital resource to ones survival, I'd go to war to try and stabilize it any day.

See, we need not feel GUILTY about trying to survive.

Terrorism IS real and is in NO way related to our need for oil. Terrorism just happens to be the thing that is making the mid-east markets bubble in turmoil right now, thus putting pressure on the more stable fields elsewhere in the world. Throw speculators into that mix, a couple of OPEC members that hate us, two growing nations with a total of 3 billion people and you have quite a dilemma.

So, no, it's not just simple black and white, "it's all for oil" type stuff. We have had to respond to things in our world that have sadly caused us stress and strain in another area of our lives.

Struggle is not without struggle, if you know what I mean.

If you're in the oil business, you don't make oil look bad by raising the price and giving people an incentive to develop other fuels. Because remember, you want people to buy your product.

It's easy to dismiss all this as just some form of corruption, but that is a far too easy scapegoat in the midst of a much larger dilemma. Because so many are not educated on things like this anymore, simple answers appeal to people's sense of reason.