Gas prices

Here we go again. The speculators, likely using inflationary Obama money (our tax dollars - yes, we are getting reamed at least twice), are causing oil and gasoline prices to rise. The economy is not really recovering; in fact, any optimism is just a mirage and a prelude to a further collapse. Most assuredly, this ridiculous rise in gas prices while inventories are high, demand is still relatively low and unemployment is rising is not justifiable. Yet we are supposed to believe that the 35% rise in average gasoline prices in Indiana in the last month is reasonable. We are getting ripped off by the same speculators and easy money crowd who drove up gasoline prices and house prices in the last decade. Are we going to sit by and allow it to happen again, even temporarily? Of course, many people have put their faith in Obama to solve all of our problems, not realizing that his release of trillions of dollars into the economy will hurt more than it helps. We, as a nation, are engaging in the same behavior as the speculators, by believing that we can quickly return to those heady days of rapid asset gains (asset bubbles actually). Well, evidently the speculators are correct, because no one seems to be slowing them down.