Record amounts of consumption leads to record profits. This isn't the 80's where the government had slapped the hand of oil companies so hard in the 70's to make them just pump all the money into their pockets. Oil companies now invest in new, cheaper, and safer technologies for drilling as well as finding more oil deposits in which to drill from.

Talk to China and the folks in the SUV's about the rising costs of gasoline.

whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."