Deep thoughts: if fuel prices take 6-12 months to percolate to consumer...

[phantom power]

We're still paying prices for goods/services due to oil at $60-$80/barrel. We won't see today's $125/barrel prices show up at the checkout line until at least November.

[rurallib]

1. price shoul;d go up steadily til November

which should make even the most die-hard bushian more and more pissed as the election nears.

[colorado thinker]

2. Absolutely

And the impact it will have on the economy is truly terrifying. Have you visited www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net? Or watched the documentary "The End of Oil"?

[GliderGuider]

4. Oooooh, lifeaftertheoilcrash -- Matt Savinar

Interesting dude. But if you go out drinking with him keep an eye on what goes into your glass -- you're liable to wake up as packages of long pig jerky, for sale on his web site }(

[phantom power]

6. The long pig...

Iz PEEPLZ!!1!!1!1!!!1

[GliderGuider]

3. You're in a cheerful mood today!

That just gives you another 6-12 months to come to terms with reality. And to pay down your credit card balance in anticipation...

[phantom power]

5. I'm an optimist, by nature.

It's simply been obscured by five years of meditating about Canfield Oceans and fractional flow curves.