Oil is used to make everything nowadays and with China grabbing as much as they can it really won't go back down much. Corn is now being used to make plastic, go figure! Let's see, corn for food, corn for fuel, corn for plastic, hmmm, I bet the price of corn goes up. It's a global population problem that we don't have the resources for what we want. I just don't see prices coming down on anything any time soon. The demand is too high everywhere. And any interuption in supply(oil, gas, water, food) will cause immediate spikes. Katrina/Rita showed us how vulnerable we really are when supply interuptions occur. Lack of planning hasn't helped either.
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