On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:44:40 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

By now it should even be obvious to the most intellectually deficient
that the market is being driven by politically motivated speculators
with huge dollars - they are determined to keep the price of at a high
level to drive this economy into the ground to punish Bush.

That's an interesting conjecture, right up there with the theories
that the WTC attack was a CIA plot to justify invading Iraq or some
such.

Actually I have it on good authority that high fuel prices are a
massive conspiracy to punish me for owning a couple of power boats.