It's often said there is not one world market for natural gas, but three regional markets, Europe, North America and Asia.

Considering where prices are now, flirting with their record level of August 2005 (70.85 dollars a barrel on August 30), OPEC has no justification for reducing the flow of oil.

But even if the chance of OPEC cutting production is almost zero, Iran is interested in letting people think it is ready to use the oil weapon.

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

truly the best thing America has to offer the world.