Thanks to Top DownFor getting us (read: me) off that annoying poster and back to what really matters: yes, what seemed to me to be a rather goofy standoff has accerated into something that is looking more and more serious... and just maybe the short-term catalist for the oil price...
To Maxmoe: soon as I read the word lobotomy in your post I was catiputed back in time to this quote:
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...
Google attributes it to Dorothy Parker....