On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:04:43 -0400, BAR wrote:

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BAR wrote:
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BAR wrote:
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@mypacks.net says...
I_am_Tosk wrote:
That's what gas prices were the day Barak Obama took the Whitehouse.
Pelosi promised the "first" thing she would address would be gas prices.

They have done nothing but shift a bunch of food into dollars for
Chicago ethanol speculators and refiners, this of course will be a
disaster...

What a simple-minded little troll you are. Fuel prices are determined by
speculators who depend upon fear-mongering. You're one of the
"fear-mongered" masses.

What's your problem? Is the kiddie motorbike racing season in jeopardy?
The Saudi's have come out and said that the market is over supplied. The
price should drop. The questions is will it?


The market, which is for all intents and purposes, unregulated, is
controlled by speculators, not by supply and demand. We. of course, let
the speculators do this, instead of standing up to them and forcing
changes in the way that part of the petrol business is run.

What is your plan to enforce changes in an international commodities
market?

How is the US a net purchaser of oil going to change the oil market?



If you are interested, there are plenty of articles available on how and
why the European common market partners are discussing commodity
regulation. They are struggling with it, especially the French, but more
commodity regulation is in the cards.

The era of "free markets" is ending, Bertie. All "free markets" have
done for the last few generations is make the rich richer and the middle
class and poor poorer. Unsustainable. Sorry.

The problems is not free markets. The problem is whiners.

Why are we giving money to Brazil to develop their off-shore oil fields?

Why are we giving money to Columbia to develop an oil refinery?

We should be developing our own oil field's and our own refinery's. This
is an issue of US national security and sovereignty.

I guess you've never heard of Texas.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/refineries.htm