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What did it mean when oil prices Monday spiked by their largest amount in history, $16 in one day? It means something is seriously wrong with the oil price market.
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Don't get carried away too soon. OPEC is not going to give way its oil. Production has already been cut, and will be cut more.
Of course, prices lag. The oil takes months to get here, and then has to be refined.
Problem is, how can we pay for oil at ANY price?
Somebody please explain...
One year ago today a barrel of oil was on the market for 77.31, gas sold for 2.75 a gallon.
Today a barrel of oil went for 79.84, and a gallon of gas bought today was 3.63 a gallon.
Am I missing something? Is this a better quality product they're getting out of the ground
now? A well worn phrase used at the company I once worked for is BOHICA.
(Bend over, here it comes again.) Yeah, well, BOHICA ya'll.
Wonder exactly how much the Arabs, etc., actually get for a barrel of oil? Yesterday I paid $3.58/gal. gasoline. Gas prices usually go down just before as election but the Repugs went to far this time. As much as we will suffer with the economy, this is a Republican thing. We can do better. Go Democratic up and down the ticket.
Obama/ Biden 08
Why is the local chevron then charging $3.79 for a gallon of unleaded. WTF???
i don't believe it - - dubya and his cadre figured out how to get the price of oil down; not drill, baby, drill. just tank the whole freakin' economy. and it's workin'. we're payin' the arabs less, and the cheney cartel isn't lowering prices in goose step, so they continue to make profits while everyone else jumps off a bridge from their thirsty suvs. gotta hand it to 'em...that's change we can depend on.
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