[Buckterrier]

I didn't ask why gas was high, fuel oil, plastic. I asked why oil prices were high.
I'm going to simplify this, for me.
I have a garden full of peppers, bushels full! You want 10 bushels of peppers. I sell you your 10 bushels for a price. I don't care if your pepper refinery is down, your customer is 50 miles from his pepper fix, or the pepper futures look gloomy, that's your problem. I'm selling the peppers to you for an agreed upon price. What you do with them is your problem. Now, you come back tomorrow and want 10 more. I still have enough yet I raise the price of my peppers. Why?

OPEC has the same amount of oil they had friggin' 50 years ago, I mean there's plenty.
I know I'm not being a realist here and there's more to it but it just all seems a bit weird to me.