Energy prices are soaring all around us, ... If this situation continues, every American family across the country is going to feel the impact this winter and next summer. No one is going to be immune.

as long as it's across-the-board . . . so that everybody feels it equally.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controlled by Venezuela's anti-American despot Hugo Chavez has become a real danger. But it's a danger the networks barely even mention.

Soaring gold and oil prices will be accompanied by soaring interest rates and inflation. The convenient fantasy world where consumer prices don't rise and the dollar doesn't lose purchasing power will collapse. As oil rises in dollar terms ? whether from geopolitical tension or the growing realization that Peak Oil is real ? the run on the dollar will grow. Hard assets like gold won't just be fashionable: They will be indispensable to wealth preservation. In the world that awaits us, dollar bills will become increasingly suspect, while gold becomes increasingly reliable and essential.

Iran has figured out that all it has to do is say belligerent things to send prices soaring, they don't have to actually do anything.