A lot of people are hurting these days because of the slow turn of the global economy. Few places are making them feel the pain of painfully slow growth more than the gas pump.
But that doesn’t mean relief can’t unexpectedly happen.
While the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 may have tempered enthusiasm for offshore drilling, the current rise in gas prices has turned the public back in that direction.
BP filed a court case yesterday that accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of it's cement slurry that was in the drilling well which blew out last year causing the nation's worst off shore oil spill.