When it comes to oil, if it wasn稚 the Mid-East situation, it would be something else. Oil traders have conveniently always found a reason to drive prices higher.
When you look at the over 2000 year old fight in the holy land, why don稚 the news commentators just say it; it all boils down to a difference of religious belief痴. It always has, it always will.
In fact, the continued violence is nothing more than a big family feud. In fact, if you care to look it up, the world痴 three most popular religions all come from the same father.
By the way, this is not a Sunday school lesson, it is just an explanation.
In church one morning, our pastor said that 典he Jews are descendants of Abraham痴 son Isaac. The Arabs are descendants of Abraham痴 son Ishmael.� The book on Genesis points out that, 的shmael (Arabs) was the son of a slave woman, and Isaac (Jews) was the promised son who would inherit the promises to Abraham, that ultimately there would be some animosity between the two sons.
The result of this was Ishmael (Arabs) began mocking Isaac (Jews), and Sarah talked Abraham into sending Hagar and Ishmael away. This began the feud between Ishmael (Arabs) and Isaac (Jews), even to the point where an angel said to Hagar that Ishmael would 斗ive in hostility toward all his brothers.�
The fight from centuries past has escalated into arguments over land, continued killings and conflict.
The descendants of Ishmael (Arabs) were so upset over the U.S. relationship with the descendants of Isaac (Jews), that they decided to take advantage of the incompetence of our nation痴 security system, and began kill our innocent civilians by hijacking air planes and crashing them into buildings.
After 911, the oil cartel figured out the time was ripe to capture some oil assets. In 2002, the average price for a gallon of gas was around $1.40. One year after the President announced his energy policy, gasoline rose to around $1.55 in 2003, $1.95 in 2004, $2.15 in 2005, and around $3.00 today.
Throw in a few hurricanes along the way; mix in a few supply interruptions, talk about demand outstripping supply, mix in a war, and your looking at a return on profits of over 100% between 2002 and today. How convenient.
Don稚 you know that God is looking down just shaking his head in disgust?
