And when it does get hot in the typical Euroland, they just stop going to work for a few weeks. So Chicago gets a little more than the Feds at current prices. With the recent hikes in interest rates and rise in gas prices, our economy is going to find itself coming to a screeching halt. But you've hit upon the major problem here. If it costs more to transport our food and other goods, we'll have an inflation problem.
Big oil raises prices.
Republicans blame Democrats for losing control of the gas prices. Bush, a former bedmate with big oil and governor of a state with one of the worst environmental records in the country, gains big from crisis. Big oil supports Bush with profits made from rising price of gas. If Bush is elected look for environmental laws concerning big oil to be dismantled. As A. Whitney Brown put it, France arguably came out on the losing end of a war with Greenpeace.