The outrages rise and current price of gas has caused everyone to rethink the way they live. Not because everyone finally got their craniums unclogged from their rectums and began to get informed about the current environmental crises that is now(not later) upon us. No, it's because their world was impacted directly and rather than by "FREE WILL" choosing to change their neg ways because it's the right thing to do, everyone waited until they were personally "Inconvenienced". I guess I shouldn't complain because the bottom line is that changes are taking place.....And not A millisecond to soon! My fear though is that THE POWERS TO BE -OPEC(the puppeteers) will panic now because they didn't forecast/believe that people would act so quickly at reducing their own consumption, there bye reducing demand. Demand was all ready going to subside a bit because the stock piles are now filled to capacity. What stockpiles? The billion or so barrels that recently got tucked away by Russia, China, India, The US and many smaller countries who are keenly aware of the potential for what will be termed "The Oil Wars". Nations with enormous militarises that will not function without oil. Jets fighters do not fly too well on corn oil! When the day arrives(sooner than you think) that oil becomes limited to the point that there isn't enough to go around and decisions on who gets it or not are left in the hands of people and regimes that don't care for the US much. Then GOD help us because he will be the ONLY one that can. They (Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other OPEC nations)sell to us now only because they are getting wealthy off our addiction. Once the supplies get low enough to the point were it will only be sold to the highest bidder. We will be in grave trouble because we won't be(all most now)able to out bid the highest bidder! Our dollar is being sold off and/or traded as quickly a countries can rid themselves of it. We now have debts to foreign countries in the area of around A TRILLION DOLLARS(that's a whole Lotta zeros). If no one will sell it to us, then I promise you this!.......on the Bombing runs that will immediately follow, we will throw human rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law out the bomb bay doors right along side the most updated version of "Fat Boy" !! My immediate concern will be that OPEC gets antsy and lowers price to again boost demand "the cry wolf" syndrome will set in heavy and hard and everyone will forget about the "unintended benefits". AGAIN! Either way we all had better start to take the "crude" reality of the facts seriously and DO SOMETHING, each and everyone of us, NOW!