I hope this is the right place to post stuff like this, but I've seen a few good articles/blogs on reasons for oil prices being so high. If you have a few minutes for an interesting read check it out here:
http://americangoy.blogspot.com/2008...es-rising.html
The second one was actually on CNN (and somewhat validates the first)
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/mark...ney_topstories
I'm not the writer of any of these articles, I just thought some fellow fuel conscious people would find this interesting.