OPEC saying that "there's no need to increase production" is some severe spin where they should be saying that they _can't_ raise production. Get ready for oil prices to go into outer space! The SUV drivers are going to get MAD AS HELL at the gas pump.

Wait as road projects incur massive cost overruns as asphalt at the bottom of the fractionating towers gets cat-cracked into "crude" to be recycled with the real crude. Buy your blacktop patch before it gets to $5/gallon! I had to use 2 pallets of the stuff to try to patch craters in a parking lot that looks like the lunar surface. I told my boss that they had better repave that lot now before it gets MUCH more expensive later, explaining how refineries are starting to cat-crack the asphalt. The 2 skids didn't even come close to filling the two largest craters, one so huge I could park my car within the confines of the largest with ease.

A comparatively smaller example of sheer waste are those grocery bags that cashiers use like they are in a competition to waste them. You know, 2 items per double-bagged bag. America uses 33,000 barrels of oil per day just to wastefully bag groceries! And they _all_ end up in the landfills. 100 million years, when intelligent cockroaches evolve, our landfills will contain all the ingredients of high-tech civilisation. Just separate it all.

Petrol prices high enough yet? Just wait!