"stocks and Shares arn`t the preserve of the priveleged few"..legaly no there not. But exsplain to me that statistic that the richest 1000 people on this planet have a combined wealth of DOUBLE the poorest 2.5 BILLION..almost a 1/4 of the entire planets population! ( Big Old probaby thinks that 2.5 billion are all scrounging , drug taking prosstitutes..lol) You might not care about journalistic cencorship in China..but i wonder if you care about anything other than, me, me, me.( which seems to be what coco is saying..in his rather strange style) BigOld, i have zero communist leanings, never have, never will. Re the current price of oil. It IS due to the speculation of future traders.. NOT the current supply. Generarly i find when peeps dont like my comments resorting to personal attacks on my caracter ussualy means there to lazy to do any research proper and have already fixed there view. I could fill my postings with an awfull lot of research links but it wouldnt make a jot of differance to a closed mind.