Oil prices up on word US ship fired on boats in Persian Gulf

The news was enough to send light, sweet crude for June delivery up to $119.55 before the contract retreated to settle up $2.46 at $118.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The thugs, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their cohorts are pushing really hard. It's doubtful that there's enough courage left in the World to hang them, but you never know.

Bob Miller