kathryn, via aol -- >> neil: i can't win here. then there is louise, via roadrunner.com -- >> neil: she had more to say but i deleted the rest of the e-mail. don writes -- paul in anaheim hillseil: that is my point exactly, george. speculators chase prices either way, up or down. when they are shorting the energy, spending for example on the decline, as they were in 2007, everyone is fine with that. not the other way around. i can understand that. what >> neil: helen writes -- >> neil: helen, you might want to talk to robert in florida. "i'm not an obama supporter but when you invite guests on proceeds to shout over, talk over, cut them off and lecture them. one of your guests called you an ass. he was spot on." scott e-mails -- neil, i get it. neil. more of your name? snake oil. it's speculators. supply is up. demand has not increased. pure speculation." scott, pure bull. demand is up. and the dollar is down and has been going down for years. because of the mockery of the budget process in washington, which hasn't produced a budget in years. oil is priced in dollars, einstein. so the cheaper the dollar get, guess what? the more dollars it takes to buy oil, the buy gas, and