On Jul 5, 4:38=A0pm, gringo <gri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> hhc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > On Jun 30, 1:20 am, gringo <gri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> nospamplease wrote:
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> >>> Monkey Clumps wrote:
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> >>>> On Jun 26, 3:58 pm, "Bob Eld" <nsmontas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Monkey Clumps" <spacebrai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>news:77309231-3a23-4417-b354-9ef6484980cf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> ...snip...
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> >>>>>> the best thing that can be done in the short term
>
> >>>>> is to tighten the rules on speculation.
>
> >>> Speculators don't buy & sell oil, they buy & sell risk. This makes
oi=
l
> >>> cheaper by making E&P financing cheaper. Speculators don't take
> >>> delivery, so they don't effect long term supply and demand. If you
> >>> eliminate them, you get more short-term volatility, and HIGHER
prices=
..
> >>> This is just typical government bungling. Their next idea will be a
> >>> special tax on producers. Puni****ng investors should spur production
> >>> right?
>
> >> exactly the point: they do not take delivery. =A0They buy it from one
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and
> >> sell it to another. =A0What risk, exactly, are you referring to,
hmmm?=
we
> >> are talking oil here, aren't we? the oil that is in such short supply
> >> that we need to drill on every square inch of Earth?
>
> >> According to experts who've been on TV lately, if the oil brokers
were
> >> eliminated, prices would immediately drop to "a more reasonable"
$40-$=
50
> >> per barrel.
>
> >> --
> >> "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we
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Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets
and=
lynched."
> >> --- George Herbert Walker Bush, in an interview with Sarah McClendon,
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> > Wow, sometthing like a 140 or so total responses to a query that could
> > have been anwered in two lines. =A0This is perhaps a new record, still
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I
> > don't rembember the OP's qustion being =A0directely answsered on this
> > newsgroup. =A0I really don't even remember offhand what the OPs
questio=
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> > was.
>
> > Harry C.
>
> They all get sidetracked from their arguments; threads spin off in all
> directions. =A0What they're interested in is ganging up against the only
> person on this NG who will stand up to the right wingers.
>
I'll stand up against the right wingers, and do everyday. I was
brought up in a right winger family but once I left the fold I was no
longer protected. That's when I learned how things "really" work in
the US of A. To surmise how the Republican administration is taking
care of our country, all one has to do is look at the state of our
economy right now, that pretty much says it all.
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