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Old 03-27-2008, 12:56 PM   #71 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by johnjrval424 View Post
Well, it affects all of us in some way - rising grocery prices, etc.

I wish that we could fight the oil companies in some fashion but we have all become prostitutes for the oil company pimps...
actually the issue of market manipulation by futures traders was raised recently. For years now we keep getting a variety of reasons why the price for a barrel of oil had gone up, intability in middle east, hurricane in the gulf, the weak dollar, the infected toe of some camel on the Arabian penninsula..... it all comes back to the market.
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