Xenophonz,

the world will be out of the grades of oil that produce your gasoline within 40 years, well within my grandchildren's lifetimes. Just maybe if US citizens started paying a realistic price for it, they'd stop using more than the rest of the world put together and start wondering what they're doing to their kid's futures.

As far as Shade pricing goes. Somebody accidentally posted a link to the US store for P5 on a Renderosity Forum last year, and I bought my ESD copy for around two thirds of what it would have cost me from the EGISys store. I wonder what would happen if someome were to, accidentally of course, post such a link again...

John