If the Chinese stockpiling theory is correct we might be able to look forward to an oil price drop after the Olympics. For a while at least. I've heard the view that the Olympics will be their last big hurrah and then the Middle Kingdom will go back to secrecy and isolation. There's talk of marathon runners carrying asthma inhalers so it could be a turning point for the games as well, perhaps going the same way as gladiator fights. I'd like the PM to ask the Chinese 'can you please not burn so much frickin' coal as it's changing the climate'. Alas I think as he descends from the post coital afterglow of the games he will send them more coal.