Greased Pigs

Gee, I’d really like to let bygones be bygones, but recent events make that quite impossible. I want everyone to stop looking forward to January 21, 2009 just long enough to settle an old score.

This week it happened — oil topped $100 a barrel. Back in early 2001 when Dick Cheney pulled together secret meetings with the nation’s top energy producers to plot out the new administration’s energy strategy, oil was selling for $26 a barrel.

What happened? And why? And whom do we have to blame for it? We still don’t know.

Smirking Chimp