| Tell you what, it would be tough trying to influence 3 Hundred Million people to lower fuel prices, but if you're plan is to change the behaviour of a large mass of people you only need to reach about 100 million of them.
That's over half of the US electorate. Get that monkey Bush out of the White House, get back to some sensible US domestic and foreign policy that conserves fuel at home and creates more stability in the middle east and voila! The world oil price becomes more stable.
Then use you vote (not many people do nowadays it seems) to threaten any party out of office if they intend to continue squeezing the last drop of tax out of every litre.
Ooooops, a little bit of politics creeping in there!
Unfortunately, the fact remains that oil is a diminishing resource and oil fields that were not even viable 10 years ago are now being exploited. I was listening to a program on the radio just yesterday about a company who have found some oil in Rajistan, they estimate something like 10 million barrels. Since OPEC upped their production to 2 million barrels a day, the new find is less than a weeks worth, but that is what oil companies are having to do now, chase down the last oil deposits in the world, and the oil pockets they do find are in increasingly hostile terrain or deeper water and therefore the base price has to go up. Add a gas guzzling, tax greedy chancellor to that and as far as fuel prices go (to coin a phrase from a pathetic 80's pop song)... the only way is up, baby.  | 
Jools
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