[coalman]

well,oil started it,then some mysterious entity started a run on money markets,congress seized the timing with the freddie/fannie mess,now we are subverted by a socialist regime,that has tee-total control of our country,and their letting the very corrupt politicians who set up the crisis ,to fix it. On top of that lets stimulate acorn,the unions and hollywood,but lets destroy our sovereignty by giving the illegals citizenship,destroy manufacturing,mining,by cap and trade,and lets let GM start making segwaymobiles and etc.2010 is our last stand maybe,I know the happy people will say”we went through worse before” and I say “BS!” this is a paradigm shift unlike any this country will ever face.
As far as OPEC,we could produce cheap electricity from COAL!!!!! and gasoline from coal and natural gas and nothing would stop this country from making back the trillions we have lost lately and drive SUV’s instead of segways.I hope Texas secedes,I will be the first to sneak thru the desert to get there.

[Big_Monkey]

"...well,oil started it,then some mysterious entity started a run on money markets,

I believe your "mysterious entity" also had a hand in the price of oil. I'm not absolving OPEC, I think they're lower than snakes in the grass, but it was speculative, and I would argue not-market driven trading that ran up oil to the price it reached. OPEC only had a marginal or peripheral role in the $4.25 a gallon gas.

As for the rest of Trump's rant, I still believe that there were elements of the Saudi Royal family that bank-rolled and knew of the coming 9/11 attacks. It's one of the few instances in which I take some umbrage with Bush and Cheney. I believe the Saudi connection was swept under the rug.