I think that higher prices will eventually modify our behavior and habit's. We will have to rethink, or reconsider, how we use our finite resources. Reality will dictate our actions. Those that can afford higher prices, can continue their oil addiction, with their usual dosage, until our leaders start rationing, or prices increase. As with any addiction, this will be a difficult process. We are so use to getting our corn flakes at the expense of others.

As a nation, we have way to many managers, that are draining the economy and resources. There is a need to adjust our thinking, so that there is adequate compensation for those that actually get their hands dirty, and do the work. The shoe makers, the sweat shop slaves that make our cloths, the farmers, etc., that actually do the work, allowing us to sit on our lazy azses at the computer all day, day dreaming of fishing, porno, or what ever.

There are way to many managers, that manage the few that do the actual work in this Country. This is part of the problem! Those managers (Multi layered) are paid the $100,000 + for a year of shuffelling paper, and doing make believe work, while the real work is done by someone that takes the metro to work, and can barley afford to heat their homes and feed their families at the same time. Those managers are usually the ones that commute to work by auto, from many miles away everyday, from huge homes that are energy hogs. Not unusual to have multiple managers, getting paid to manage the same single person at the bottom. This is a contributing part of our dysfunction. We need to stop whinning and admit that we are dysfunctional because of our debilitating disease, that is addiction. Addiction to cheap or free labor. Addiction to Oil, addiction to power, addiction to a dysfunctional system, that has brought us to our knees. That in a nut shell, is what's causing the withdrawal pain and suffering.

We have always assumed that we could have our cake and eat it to, which is delusional to say the least. It will take some time, but we will eventually be restored to our sanity, and capable of functioning in harmony with the planet and the rest of humanity.