Hurricane Katrina is a real threat to our oil infastructure, but I think this situation is being made far worse by oil speculators. Is George Sorros behind this oil price hike as a means of getting George Bush?
Soros is a major currency trader. I'm not for conspiracy theories either, but
He was massively shorting the american dollar last year, and some where saying it created a trend strong enough to influence the huge run up of the Euro vs dollar.
Interesting how this was all going on during the election year where the economy was considered the most important issue.
Since then, in the later spring of this year, the dollar came on strong and the euro has sunk. I hope Soros took it in the pants when that happened.
Soros also has recently lost a case of fraud issued by the French government for currency manipulation. He had to pay over a million dollars in the settlement.