there is an oddly circular argument going on in the MSM today about consumer prices easing because the price of oil is dropping, but that is somehow because of concerns that the fannie mae/freddie mac problem will mean that demand for energy won't return anytime soon . . . but I don't remember the MSM ever mentioning global demand as a reason for oil prices rising in the first place. oil prices went through the roof because of george bush's foreign policy in the middle east, I thought.