Crabboy,
How much do you pay for gas? I just tanked up at $1.45 for medium grade unleaded. The most I've ever paid was $1.70 this summer but vacation time is over so demand is down so prices are down. Still dropping here even with the OPEC cut down.
Oil gets more expensive and it's real good for my family and a lot of my friends. My dad lives in Houston so anytime oil prices go up for a long time Houston has a boom. I talked to my old boss there this week and he said he's still blowing and going, designing 3 or 4 houses a week. Before it was the tech guys buying them, now it's the oil guys
And another thing about good business. You guys sell more to us than we do to you, that's fine. We're used to it, we buy more than any other nation on Earth so it's kind of hard not to have a deficit. Guess what? That kinda makes us the costomer, and you know the old saying (you may not with your attitude) "the customer is always right" It doesn't make too much business since to piss of your biggest costomer, ya know? Maybe you don't....