Economics?

If you have a country that has one thing to sell and must buy everything else from other countries shouldn't both sides have bargaining positions....a barrel of oil at $140 and a bushel of wheat for $140 a bushel....both buyers are figuratively over the barrel....both need to buy so why can't the prices come into alignment...supply and demand.

If you want to sell you must price it to sell fairly or sit on the supply and wait, risking the power of your position could change if the need or supply changed. In the meantime you have to buy food and just about everything else from outside your country....you have to pay the price...oil countries should see that their extortion can be made to work both ways...or in a fair world it should.

The one forecaster claimed that the rising cost would remove 10 million cars from the roads in the next two years....that is in Canada....any bets on the political leaders seeing and acting on transportation needs before the changes start to drastically impact the lives of the brain dead dolts who refuse to complain about the leadership you get for the money spent. The countries are all being changed by the times but so far no leader has tried to step forward and control the overpopulating through immigration or the urban sprawl so dependent on gas to reach the areas of employment....time to grow a garden, raise chickens, and live near where you work has come but the politicos do nothing until they figure out a way to line their pockets from whatever action they take.

SOON TIME TO TURN THE EYES TO HEAVEN AND LAMENT FOR GOD TO FIX WHAT THE PEOPLE SCREWED UP...JUST REMEMBER THE GOD BEING WORSHIPPED IS THE ONE IN THE MONEY TEMPLES AND IT ISN'T GOING TO FIX ANYTHING UNLESS THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!!!!