On one side we have the consumers - angry Americans and eventually everyone else living in oil importing nations, and on the other side, citizens of the countries dependent on oil exports for revenue - who will be even angrier in not many years. Mix in our collection of short term thinking, sociopathic leaders, and poof! I wouldn't want to be OPEC. No, really - owning America in the dollar sense is irrelevant in the long term when your country can't produce it's own food, consumer, and industrial goods.

you are the media you consume.