Until people reduce their consumption and realize they don't need cheap, easily replaced crap to keep them happy oil will remain high. I'm amazed at how much people complain about these prices, yet don't flinch at filling their SUV to drive from the suburb to the city every day while their neighbor does the exact same thing to drive to their job in the building next door.

Speculators driving the price of oil up won't help anybody in the long run, including the speculators. Sooner or later something is going to give, and the economy will be in such a horrible state that the price of oil will fall on it's butt as well.

In the mean time, we need to start finding a realistic replacement. Ethanol isn't the answer. One severe drought and you're not only affecting our food supply, you're affecting fuel supplies.