Jungle is correct for the following reasons:

1) He is correct factually regarding this issue
2) He takes excellent pictures
3) I am a little afraid of him

An excellent book for any interested in this topic is "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin - excellent book about the history and evolution of the oil business.

The ones I am ****ed at are the greedy Dairy Farmers. They get $4 per Gallon! FOUR DOLLARS per GALLON! for a product that:

1) Goes bad after a couple days (oil doesn't)

2) Is not difficult to locate - find a cow (as opposed to geographers finding a location, electronic logging, core samples, an exploratory well, and then...MAYBE...you find oil).

3) Is not a depleting commodity (cows and bulls can create more milk producers)

4) Is not dangerous to transport (Valdez, tanker trucks,etc...)

5) Milk does not explode and kill people when pastuerized (see this weeks refinery explosion).

6) A gallon of Milk can not make my 4,500lb, 400hp V8 car go a mile. A gallon of gas can make it go 15!

7) Milk does not have to be dispensed with expensive pumps and extreme measurement tolerances that include pay options - it just requires a plastic or glass jug and a fridge.

The Dairy Farmers are absolutely SCREWING US and you think the oil companies are bad.