From: "Geo" 

"Dave"  wrote in message
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> China is a red herring, as far as spiralling oil prices are concerned.

The whole oil price thing is bullshit, they are just using it to regulate
our economy (they being our government). Every time I've seen our sales
start going up, some excuse pops up and the price of gas shoots up. Last
week I noticed we were having a record month and I told my boss, "you
watch,
$3/gallon by month end" and damned if I didn't hit it right on the money.

Oh a hurricane forced all the oil rigs to shut down, and so the price is
going to jump $0.40 gallon... like we've never had hurricanes in the gulf
before..

It's a farce, when the economy heats up they either have to go nuts with
interest rates or gas prices, if they do the interest rate thing they can't
pretend they aren't doing anything to control inflation, they would have to
actually admit that we're in a tough spot but by using gas pricing they
come up with an endless line of excuses for why the price of gas is going
up.

If it were real, congress would be screaming for a windfall profits tax for
the oil companies (like they keep pushing any other tax they think they can
get away with increasing). Ask yourself, in this time where they are so hot
to find new ways to tax us to make up for lost income, why haven't there
been any screams for renewal of the windfall profits thing? Right...

Geo.

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