Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Endlessly Inventive Human Being

The part of me that's disgusted by this story about several companies' success at manipulating global oil prices is at odds with the part of me that reads things like this and thinks, "Holy crap, we're truly amazing in our capacity to find new ways to screw each other over! How do we do it?"

And how do the perpetrators of such carefree rape of their fellow humans live with themselves? Quite comfortably, I'm guessing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I haven't read the article yet, but I must say that I have a hard time believing the assertion that oil prices are controlled. There's just too much evidence against it.

For a taste of why I have a hard time believing the notion of oil companies conspiring to control oil prices, see Robert Rapier's blog, along with this entry.

http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-review-oil-on-brain.html