Again, amazing.
If U.S. oil companies had anything to say about the oil market, you would have dismissed it instantly as being drivel from a self-interested and biased source.
OPEC? Hey, no self-interest or bias like that here!
People are pushing the "dollar value" factor hard because if people start looking at other things like supply and demand, suddenly somebody else begins to look like the goat, and this time it isn't Bush.