The rising cost of everything that makes up the human experience cannot be blamed on just one thing or issue. The list can be quite huge on the reasons everything cost so much but let us try and narrow it down a bit.

•  Commodity Brokers
•  Government - Politicians - Rulers
•  Oil

Commodity Brokers

These types of people are becoming the bane of the earth. They have no real principals or morals and they buy and sell just about anything just for a commission check.

When it comes to oil trading, they do not care about how many people are affected by their jacking up prices, locking down higher price deals and manipulating the oil markets to keep prices extremely high and collaborating with the producers of oil to keep the price at a high level.

Regulate them, get rid of them or just plain shoot them so that the countries and all nations have a bigger say on how much they will pay for this precious commodity called oil.

Government –Politicians – Rulers

Politicians and the government go hand in hand when it comes to ripping off their fellow man. They live in a dream like world with money, power and perks that the common man can only dream about.

Yes the government tries to be a bit loose on the regulations for exploring new avenues for producing oil. They are allowing companies to use and develop HPHT drilling methods to acquire more oil; however it is an expensive method. Then as soon as we start producing more oil, the other oil producing countries (mainly OPEC) lower their prices thus making our efforts fruitless because we cannot compete.

So we back off on some of the HPHT drilling because of cost, then OPEC decides not to produce as much and the price goes up again.

Do you really think that OPEC cares how much they affect people of all nations? They’re own people live in poverty while the rulers of these nations just keep getting richer and richer.

They pulled this crap in the 1070’s when they stated that we are running out of oil, so they just jacked up the price, then extreme turmoil set end, wars almost started so they backed off a bit.

And now look at where we are and what we are facing.

Oil