".Blueskies." wrote in message
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The problem here is that we are continuing to pay those 'hidden' expenses
and taxes while also paying the ever increasing costs of the gasolene. The
prices are being driven by speculators, not by true demand, and the
profits are exorbitant.

China and India tripling and quadrupling their consumption is not a "true
demand"?