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The opposite is happening here in the real world. Rising prices make people consume more & drive their SUV's more. They want to get in more driving ahead of future higher prices.
Gas dropped 2 ...

I would not try it with a regular car unless it is a flex fuel car or you converted into flex fuel. Alcohol will eat through your seals.

Sweet! I just won on who wants to be a millionaire! Damn It! It's Zimbabwe money! It's only worth 50 cents Sad

Iaato posted this earlier, but here it is again:

Huh? So remember those 19 market-makers who the SEC was going to prevent naked shorting of?
"Here's The Deal
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Most other posters already said it. But dollar weakness and supply and demand fundamentals together are kicking oil higher.

Stopping an illegal practice is hardly capital control.
The risk of these criminals taking their business elsewhere - NIL. Naked shorters haven't contributed anything and therefore nothing lost. In ...

If you have 15 million percent inflation, what is the point of understating it?
"Oh, inflation is only 2.2 million this month? Phew, I thought we had a problem."

GDP, and the people it employs, knows not from waste to useful goods to Katrina disasters. If I decide to have crude oil bonfires every night, I am increasing GDP by buying oil. However I could increa ...

we'll never see oil in single digits again. Really going on a limb with that prediction Smile

I thought this was funny:
In Pakistan on Thursday, more than 200 protestors attacked the Karachi Stock Exchange, the country's main equity market, and demanded a temporary closure of the market to c ...

Al this talk of cutting "waste".... Rolling Eyes

GDP, and the people it employs, knows not from waste to useful goods to Katrina disasters. Well, there is still some waste. If I drive slower the only one h ...

Many business and local economies count on the busy summer driving season for the bulk of their yearly income.
Not just car sales, "changing driving patterns, driving slower, chain trips together, et ...

OK, dad..why don't you blaze that trail for the rest of us then? I thought I just did. The money and energy to build a bus is the least of our worries. How about worry more about the massive unemploym ...

Now...where's the money and energy going to come for constructing all these new busses? I was hoping to stay on topic :/ I get that you have a hard-on for the doomer porn that is spewed forth here, bu ...

Now, let's get this thread back on track. Agreed, this thread is starting to stray.

Without a major upheaval in society with regards to how we do things, just have far can we pare down and keep thi ...