Reply #2: Oh, that's not Iraq optimism

[tom_paine]

Bunnypants* and his Saudi/Oil pals purposefully jacked up the prices.

How did they do this? All machinations are below the surface except one, so far as I can see.

Bunnypants* made sure to fill the National Petroleum Resrve at Peak Prices.

now he's stopped, and the prices are going back down.

Which is a Two-Fer of Fraud and Theft:

1) Prices stay high, giving his Oil Co. Pals the chance to steal evermore and rationalize shortages/hig prices. The same thing that Enron did. Did you think they JUST invented that stratagem?

2) Buying at Peak Prices for the Nat'l Pet. Reserve means that more of those illicit profits are sent to Cayman isalnds accounts of the Busheviks whole SCREWING the Filthy Little Nobodies the Busheviks HATE, even their own Sturmtruppen.