I hope I live long enough to see the shit really hit the fan for the Saudis.  I've begun hearing some ominous rumbles; I only wonder whether they'll run out of oil before the bottom drops out of the oil market, or vice versa.

One day all of those poor Indonesians and Pakis will bond together in religious brotherhood and throw all those entitled bastards out on their ears and move into the empty fifty story Freudian dumps they have been building and it will make Cambodia look tame by comparison.

THEN the CIA can move back in and put those oil wells back on the payroll at a better rate. Our biggest problem is that what started out as a few friendly sheikhs in our back pockets 50 years ago got greedy and started to think they were at the other end of the leash. See what 10 years of fracking does to your hold on OPEC you greedy, narcissistic bastards!



Really, I could give two shits. Gas should cost twice what it does and any joy I might get in $2 gas is offset by knowing that it's costing me somewhere else, something I can't even see coming. $15 bread because the Ogallala Aquifer is dead? Another oil baron in the White House? What's the *real* cost?