Well, OPEC is certainly not a friend of the west. It's akin to supermarket bosses inflating prices for bread, cheese and milk, and then people just shrugging their shoulders and accepting it. With all the natural gas that the UK and the US has, I say it's high time to reduce our dependency on african and arab oil, solar power, natural gas, all these should be furthered....lest we continue to be under the bootheel of the russians, saudis, and others who dislike and laugh at us....my two cents.