Go looking for a job in the US vs. India right now and you won't have to ask this kind of question--because no one in the US will hire you with a wet commercial (or with 1000 hours probably!). Whereas in India you have a shot at actually getting a job.

I hate to say it as if the US has some God-given right to other countries oil (well, uh, I guess we did pretty much build most of the infrastructure for getting it out of the ground in Saudi while they were still nomads riding around in the desert eating apricots...I digress).....BUT...the fact that aviation is booming in India and China is one more example of why oil is so f-ing high here....as Jet and Air China and IndiGo, etc. etc. etc add to their fleets and their people start flying around, their demand for jet fuel has gone up, raising prices here...just one more example of many...

Darnit...if we hadn't borrowed that trillion to go to Iraq our dollar would be much stronger and fuel would've only gone up 25% instead of 50% (i.e. EU). Shucks! Guess maybe people shouldn't vote based on who they'd rather have a beer with next time!!! (venting, sorry)