economic woes caused by criminals

[abelenkpe]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/23/organized.crime.threats/index.html



Article suggests high oil prices are being manipulated by criminals and terrorists to rob the US. What do you guys think of this?

[LiberalEsto]

1. They're right

The CEOs of all the big oil companies are in change of this.

[midnight]

2. Time to shut them down.....

[Demeter]

3. Mukasey, Heal Thyself!

Start prosecuting the Criminals-in-Chief, and clean out the Dept. of Injustice. You'll get those organized criminals and the oil cheats at the same time.

[abelenkpe]

5. article makes me a tad nervous

seems like an effort to prime the public into believing our economic woes are caused by outsiders and not our own policies. Additionally, I hope this 'slowdown' isn't used as a reason to start another conflict. I have a young son....I keep hoping the world will get it's act together, start acting like grown ups and our children can grow up in peace. (Which really made me pissed at Hillary's recent Iran comment....I don't want to hear that stuff. Is it too much to ask our candidates to lay off the war rhetoric?) Am I just worrying a bit too much?

[Demeter]

6. Not At All

Not enough people are worrying enough. And that has me worried.

[fasttense]

4. Yeah criminals like the five big oil monopolies.

It is a supply bubble like ENRON and the OPEC Oil embargo in the 70s. Bottleneck the supply, keep it from coming out, and hike the price claiming it is demand problem.

[liberalla]

7. oil prices being manipulated by criminals and terrorists to rob the US.?

Organized crime? Yes, that's a good description for this current administration.

After clicking on link, I saw it was Mukasey speaking. No, I don't believe anything he says.

[leftofthedial]

8. same people who financed the coup of 2000

[Warpy]

9. They're right about the criminals

but wrong about the terrorists. The criminals are commodities speculators who are betting Stupid starts a war against Iran. There is a fine line between business and criminality, and commodities futures prices today look like criminality, especially petroleum futures.

If the military rebels against Stupid and he doesn't get a war against Iran, prices will fall and speculators will take a beating.

Howevr, Stupid hasn't let them down yet, has he?