Ok I understand that most pilots are extreme financial experts and we sit in on strategic oil meetings with world leaders at least once a week. OR is it that we just let the media tell us what they heard and think and then tell us what WE should think. What ever it is I myself really haven't a clue what is going on and to be perfectly honest with you I highly doubt all of what I hear is what is ACTUALLY going on with fuel, reserves and the economy. Now this might sound stupid but I have a question about a barrel of fuel. It costs the US currently around 120-130 per barrel which results in around 4 bucks a gallon for us and I think it's a little cheaper per gallon for JP. So my point is that I have been to Europe and other parts of the world and for many many years they have been paying more than our current fuel prices for a gallon or equivalent of gasoline. And when you go to those countries they use those smart cars, everyone and their grandmother rides a scooter and many of their cars run on diesel. And when I'm there it seems that no one really complains all that much about "The Fuel Prices". And you never hear on the news about the dilemma in other parts of the world about rising gas prices. Now I could totally be way off but if they have been doing it for many years, why the heck can't we? And I was also wondering about aviation around the world. If they are paying and have been paying what we now pay for fuel for many years, what are they doing to keep the costs down so that we don't hear about all the turmoil in foreign airlines? Hopefully I did not offend anyone. Just a little something that I had bottling up.