Oil

The Australian: Oil sends stocks down :

"The oil price rose to new records, about $US70 a barrel, with fears that it could go even higher as hurricane Katrina in the United States threatens supply."

Well, it sure ain't the good oil any more. Okay, so the hurricane hitting the gulf of Mexico where the oil rigs are probably isn't a good idea when it comes to oil prices. But how come they keep going up and up and the prediction is to 100 dollars a barrel? They were saying on the news on my way home you'd never get people to give up their cars and lifestyle with cars and so they'd just keep paying the extra. So waht is the matter with us? Why the fixation on oil? Why the lack of flexibility? Why not work on the alternatives so we are not constantly held to ransom? And it also means increases in air fares. Don't they want us to travel any more? I think we need to work on teleportation. How far are we with that anyway and how many people have we lost in space trying to get it working?!! Beam me up, I don't like these oil prices. Maybe we need to go back to the simple life, heh?