World Naked Bike Ride in Saint Louis is part of an international protest against oil dependency while promoting comfortable body image and cyclist awareness.

The 10-mile ride kicks off at Tower Grove Park at 9 p.m. Aug 2 and concluded at the Atomic Cowboy in the Grove neighborhood.

Hundreds of bicycle riders put on their best thong underwear and pedaled in protest.

St. Louis police were on hand to ensure the riders wore the bare minimum, which included thongs, pasties, loin cloths, bathing suits and even body painting.

The ride has been staged in 70 cities worldwide since 2004.

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Oil adds $5 to top $140 a barrel after Chakib Khelil, president of OPEC, said he thinks the price for crude could rise to between $150 and $170 a barrel this summer and decline after that. He doesn’t think oil will hit $200.

Well, nothing is impossible.

The price of oil traded up more than $5 US on Thursday after Libya hinted at a production cut and the head of OPEC said prices could top $150 a barrel this year.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light sweet crude for August delivery rose $5.09 to settle at $139.64.

Earlier, oil hit an intraday peak of $140.39. That marked the first time the near-month contract for oil had surpassed $140. The previous near-month record high was $139.89 for the July contract reached on June 16.

Oil shot up on comments from Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, who said he thinks the price for crude could rise to between $150 and $170 a barrel this summer. He said he sees prices declining after that, and doesn’t think oil will hit $200.

Adding to oil’s rise was a statement from Shokri Ghanem, the head of Libya’s national oil company, who said the country might cut crude production. According to reports, Ghanem said he believes oil markets are well-supplied.

“[Ghanem], the nation’s top oil official, declined to say when a decision would be made on whether to lower production, or give any indication of the size of the cut under consideration,” said Addison Armstrong, director of market research at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Conn.

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Lorenzo Odone, the man whose true life story the movie Lorenzo’s Oil was based, died on May 30, 2008, at his home in Virginia.

Augusto Odone says Lorenzo Odone, his son, had come down recently with pneumonia.

Doctors had predicted he would die when he was 8, but Lorenzo had another opportunity of life thanks to his father Augusto Odone.

Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte starred as Michaela and Augusto Odone in the 1992 movie, “Lorenzo’s Oil”. They formulated an oil that they said helped their son fight the neurological disease.

A study published in 2005 verified that the oil could prevent the onset of symptoms.

Here is the Lorenzo’s Oil Movie Trailer:
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Peak Oil is “the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum production is reached, after which the rate of production enters its terminal decline.”

Many experts believe we have already reached, or are on the cusp of reaching, the point of global peak oil.

Here’s an interview with a peak oil expert, Matthew R. Simmons:
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