Since I'm not that well versed enough in the policies and such that have lead to such outrageous gas prices in Euroland or Oz, I do have to wonder who here has been played ... though I don't have to think all that hard to reach a conclusion.

If you ask why we American complain about the more than doubling in the prices we find when we hit the go-juice dispensaries in just the past cuppla years it's because too many of us know the "why", and it riles us more than just a tad.

When an administratons intent to discourage oil based fuels is at the top of their stated agenda, in favor of even more outrageously priced energy production methods that require huge govt subsidy monies (read: TAX dollar funded) to even be able to come close to being competitively priced (and still fall waaay short of that goal!), the outcome we're seein at the pumps today is the result of that action, and we don't like it.

Maybe folks in the rest of the world are more gullible and think it's Ok to be so duped into having such ridiculous gas prices foisted upon them, and I guess that's Ok so long as you cats agree to it, but, don't try to coddle us into thinking similarly by saying we're whining about attempting to be similarly duped.

Seems all too obvious from here whom indeed has been duped into accepting the overlords policies for far too long already, just dudn seem like it's us