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Friday, January 12, 2007

Let’s Take a Look Back

JRE @ Fileitunder:

Now lets think back to October… think back… come on way… back… almost there… OK, we’re in October 2006.  After buying lottery tickets, let’s remember the conspiracy theories about the falling gasoline and oil prices.  Remember theseAnd these?  This one on Al-jazzy is the best, stating that prices WILL RALLY after the mid-term elections.

Right now, in October 2006 President Bush is lowering oil and gasoline prices so people will be happy and vote for Republican Congressmen.  He is.  That’s what he does.

After the elections, we will see a drastic rise in oil prices.

OK, now let’s go back to January 12, 2007… come on… almost.... OK.  Today I see that NYMEX oil prices dropped to $51.88 per barrel (bbl).  You can click that link and see the graph of historic prices over the last year.

Notice how it peaks in August or early September 2006 and then falls?  That’s Bush lowering the oil and gas prices and then raising them back up.

Oh wait, you mean they’ve continued to fall?  So maybe this was not a conspiracy at all?  Maybe oil prices are controlled by global economic factors?  Wow.

I question the pricing…

Comments

Now damn it! I just did a witty comment on this over at FIU. And now you post it here! Its a conspiracy! A conspiracy I tells ya!

A conspiracy to keep me typing when I need to go to the store.


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2Hotel9 on January 12, 2007 at 12:07 pm

By all means, keep the comments going over there.  I don’t mind.  If I could close comment threads I might - just to be vain and horde the traffic at FIU.  But Rob has good tools to keep the comments lively here, subscriptions and readable recent comments on the sidebar.

Alas, FIU does not offer that.


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Hoodlumman on January 12, 2007 at 01:44 pm

email notification is all I ask. Blocking spam is my airtank, not your’s.


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2Hotel9 on January 12, 2007 at 06:52 pm
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Did you guys know we have the smallest gasoline prices in the world? And that we drive our cars more than any other human beings? And that we don’t even have sidewalks, and we’re the fattest population of the world? So did Bush actually did a good think lowering the prices?

Stereophonics on November 30, 2007 at 01:24 am

Musiclyrics, your spam aside, where do you live that they do not have sidewalks? And what does the price of gas have to do with you spamming illegal music downloads? Just curious.


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2Hotel9 on November 30, 2007 at 04:42 am
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