Reply #7: Depends on how badly the dollar tanks.

[tom_paine]

I mean, oil would only be about $70-$80/bbl if we didn't have the Bushie Vampires liquidating our assets, stripping them and stealing them or selling them to their Tyrant Pals, thus causing the cascading effect of Imperial Amnerikan economic collapse and causingthe dollar to plummet.

But it has only just begun to plummet, unless Obama or Clinton are permitted to assume the Imperial Throne of Amerika, something I doubt very much no matter how many people vote for them. Even then, I suspect a brief intermission only, a time of rest if you will, between vampire-bites, but no real change of the status quo.

In any case, if McCain is installed on the throne, it will be a clear signal that American freedom is over and the looting is going to into overdrive as the elites strive to prepare protected positions when the whole thing goes in the toilet (do we have twenty years? probably not. ten? maybe, if Clinton or Obama sit on the throne between Evil Bushies. five? if McCain is installed, likely). They have to hire half of us to kill the other half.

The point is, the dollar's health is now directly tied into America's economic strength and immoral values, especially after we stole about $1 trillion in the subprime con. More than Peak Oil, at least in the short term, the pathetically weak and getting weaker Imperial worthless dollar will control how fast $200/bbl. oil comes.

Amerika is a hollowed out shell of its former self, with a weak-minded, cowardly, apathetic, and deluded TV addled populace.

Fertile ground for evil tyrants like the Bushies.