[rageaholic]

Remember, every time you tank up, you put a dollar in some scumbag sheik's purse (they don't have pockets on their robes).

[Finalapproach29er]

If they stopped pricing OIL in Dollars, the value of the dollar might collapse by as much as 25-33%. If OPEC prices oil in EUROS, America is seriously screwed.

This is why we stay involved and control things over there in the Gulf States away from Israel.IMHO

[John Frum]

That's true, but you do that in a somewhat indirect fashion. You're first putting a dollar into some refiner's pocket (bloodsucking middlemen leeches) who then pays an oil company who finally pays a scum-sucking sheik. Figure the Sheik is getting at least 50% of that dollar, though.