So I am giving someone I know a ride yesterday, and I look at the prices near the college where I picked him up; $2.39 for the cheapest quality liquid-mutated highly-sought-after energy.

I ask him “What do you think of the gas prices?”

He says “Oh, they are going accordin to economics.”

Me : “What economics is that?”

Him : “Oh, the big oil companies are saying that the oil prices are on the rise because they have iven many refineries to smaller companies because of overnment restriction and because of those refineries, there is a shortage in management and production in oil.”

Me : “So, you are saying that because of those smaller companies taking the refineries from Mobil, Shell and Arco, the gas prices are going?”

Him : “Well, that also, and also the demand is more than the supply.”

Me : “The demand is higher then, because of the smaller companies mis-managing the refineries causing the supply to go down?”

Him : “Yes.”

Me : “Has not the oil from Iraq increased the supply?”

Him : “Iraq has no oil; its own people are borrowing oil from Kuwait.”

Me : “Where did all the oil in Iraq go? They were the largest, or one of the top three largest owners of oil reserves, were they not?”

Him : “Well, they can’t get oil since it is just an assumption that they have lots of oil.”

Me : “So, where is the oil for the armies over there coming from? Is it being sent everyday from the US?”

The conversation ended there, as we had to call AAA to solve his problem [his car keys got stolen/lost/something].

Supply is going down, yes. And we all know exactly what it is; anything but the demand from the people. It is the demand from the people running the show.

It was time then, after getting his problems solved or at least my part of it finished, to move on to a coffee place with a really good friend. Mushi Mushi.