http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/03/MN8I1M7LAV.DTL

The news articles that I draw your attention to on a daily basis are intended to show the breadth and depth of our problems (how badly broken the system is) and are bookmarks that we’ll come back to later when we get into the serious paradigm re-engineering discussions on things our new paradigm must structurally address. Just read for now…we’ll connect the dots later. This article illustrates one of the many strategies being pursued by big oil companies to keep fuel prices high to rake in record profits, at the expense of every other segment of our economy. Energy, which the nation depends upon across all sectors, should not be subjected to the wild gyrations of Wall Street speculation. It’s one of several industries that we need to pull off the table and manage for social profit (an idea we’ll explore further) instead of corporate profit.