Oil hits record at $108 a barrel

This is a short article describing the depressing state of our dollar value as well as our ability to get cheap oil. It seems like a fairly harmless article full of facts and figures and lists out a few names of who's involved in our oil "crisis" per say, but a review of the article a second time made me think twice. I would say this is an article with the very slightest of words being used to make us think what the author wants us to. A one word remark about Opec being a cartel as well as seemingly assigning their actions to our issues appears as an article written to make me think poorly of Opec and blame them for our problems. Personally, I am certainly no big fan of Opec, but I know that they do not go and market themselves as a cartel, so there is certainly more than one side to that argument even though the article states it as if it were a common known fact. The story then goes on to outline the financial strain the government and the public will undertake due to the recent developments in the oil industry-developments caused by Opec as stated by the article.