Peeeeaaaak!

It's a measure of how messed up the world is that when democracy starts happening in the Middle East, one of the things that happens is debate about how it will effect oil markets. It's pretty fucked up that a people calling for an end to a very repressive regime causes concern that our economy could collapse. That's what you get for having an oil-based, hugely wasteful economy, though.

Who knows what will happen - if there's one thing we can be sure of it's that there are a lot of variables at work here - but there's a good chance that things are about to get interesting. Hang on to your hats.