alright well i'll start off looking for comments about this article:

http://www.energybulletin.net/1342.html

not because it says anything new but because it seems like a good way to explain the situation to those americans just waking up from their t.v. naps to find gas $3 a gallon sans hurricane (they're grumpy!)

yikes wrong link.  here's the article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12333796/site/newsweek/

sorry.