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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: May 2011
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Fuel prices may moderate
True North wrote:
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On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:58:53 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 16:55:20 -0400, Percy wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 12:12:00 -0700, sent the
following message
On Fri, 06 May 2011 15:01:41 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 11:44:40 -0700, wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 13:54:21 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 10:09:12 -0700, wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 01:59:04 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 05 May 2011 22:05:27 -0700, jps
wrote:
Oil took a 10% dive today as speculators started selling off
positions
out of fear the top price has been seen.
These speculators should have to pay a huge tax on their
profits since
they're causing so many Americans to pay inflated prices at
the pump
and causing inflation in every sector of retail.
NEW YORK -- Oil prices took a nosedive Thursday in a historic
selloff,
erasing weeks of gains and indicating that the months-long
climb in
energy prices may have hit a ceiling.
Crude oil plunged 10 percent as startled investors unloaded
their
positions and a weeklong decline accelerated into an outright
freefall. The price of U.S. crude went from triple digits to
double
digits, falling below $100 after opening at close to $110.
Brent
crude, a European benchmark, lost $12 at one point in a
sell-off that
exceeded the one following Lehman Brothers' collapse, Reuters
reported.
An oil correction is underway, experts said, as the price is
moving
toward what fundamental economic factors dictate it should
be. For the
American consumer, plagued by weeks of rising energy prices
that have
begun to weigh heavily on the economy, a bit of respite may
be at
hand.
You know the old adage, gas prices go up like a rocket and
fall like a
feather
Yes, I also know the story about Chicken Littlle
Having nothing to do with what we are talking about.
It is a fact that gas prices go up with oil prices but they lag
the
fall of oil prices by several weeks or even months.
If oil dropped to $60 tomorrow, gasoline might not reflect that
for a
month or more.
Chicken Little was afraid of the sky falling. Right wing nuts are
convinced the world is ending and rising oil prices are
supposedly an
example. Totally appropriate comment.
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The world isn't ending, but we are losing value in the dollar and
that
shows up in oil or anything else we import. You can live in denial
if
you like.
Yet the price of oil is dropping... I guess my denial is working.
Let me know when you get the gas prices down to two bucks. Thanks a
bunch
I can remember when we considered $2 gas to be expensive. It was
only 10 or 11 years ago.
I remember when they stopped the gas lines by removing price controls
and letting it leap up to 55 cents, the same as a pack of Marlboros.
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I can remember when it was 49 cents for an imperial gallon.....
At the time, I was working part time at a Toronto gas station while
attending a technical school in 1968/69.
See how that turned out for you?
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