>Ah, but then your government must have been willing to sass the oil companies. That's just not the case over here. Here the government has more of an a$$ ki$$ing sort of relationship with the oil companies.


Sadly true. I already asked Terry how the British government did it. I think if we threatened the oil companies and oil producing nations they would hit us back twice as hard in the form of "shortages" and even higher prices. They've got us over a barrel.

We (speaking in a general way; you probably drive a very sensible car) don't make it any easier with our love of huge gas guzzling vehicles.