Meta wrote:
> On Jul 5, 4:38 pm, gringo <gri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> hhc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>> On Jun 30, 1:20 am, gringo <gri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> nospamplease wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Monkey Clumps wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 26, 3:58 pm, "Bob Eld" <nsmontas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Monkey Clumps" <spacebrai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...snip...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
oil
>>>>> 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. They buy it from one
and
>>>> sell it to another. What 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
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. This is perhaps a new record, still I
>>> don't rembember the OP's qustion being directely answsered on this
>>> newsgroup. I really don't even remember offhand what the OPs question
>>> was.
>>>
>>> Harry C.
>>>
>> They all get sidetracked from their arguments; threads spin off in all
>> directions. What 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.
>
>
Amen, Meta.
--
"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we
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, 1992
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