Stock's par, stock's up, Then on the wane; Every body's troubled with Oil on the brain. -- From a song, "Oil on the Brain," 1864
Most Americans have pretty strong opinions about high gasoline prices, oil companies and foreign oil. Indeed, one needn't spend very much time at a service station to hear loud and profane suggestions about how to solve matters (a hangman's noose or nuclear weapons are often part of the scenario). Yet it's a… more
