Posted On: May 23, 2008, 8:09 am CDT

Posted By: Gasman

People shouldn't just accept the price of oil. When economists have stated that the true price of oil per barrel is far less than the current price set by traders (when oil was $100 per barrel it was said the true price should have been $50), people should be calling for some heads to roll. When we are paying nearly $4.00 per gallon of gas and oil companies are raking in record profits, heads should roll. When nearly 8 years ago the Bush administration called in the executives of oil companies to help him develop his energy plan and then within months oil prices started to rise,hard questions should be asked...what's wrong with this picture? People only griped about his choice of advisors for a minimal amount of time and then forgot while prices rose. I'll grant you Katrina and Iraq then made the situation far worse, but our country was already heading down the road to high oil prices.