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echo: pol_disorder
to: Bob Klahn
from: John Massey
date: 2008-08-18 17:29:44
subject: politics....

Bob Klahn -> John Massey wrote:

 BK>>>  Do you see oil prices dropping back below where they were when
 BK>>>  Bush took office?

 JM>> Do you see ANY prices dropping back to pre-Bush levels?

 JM>> Cokes use to cost a nickel, get over it.

 BK>  That was 40 years ago. Perhaps longer. I believe a coke was a
 BK>  dime 40 years ago. Adjusted for inflation you can get them for
 BK>  less than they cost 40 years ago. Not so gasoline.

 BK>  Thirty years ago they used to say the can cost more than the
 BK>  coke that went in it. The 12 oz aluminum can cost 9 cents.
 BK>  Today that aluminum can costs around 5 cents. And that's not
 BK>  adjusted for inflation.

 BK>  Of course, those numbers are pre-Bush-inflation. Listening to
 BK>  the radio on the way into work someone said the inflation rate
 BK>  was 5%. Funny thing, I was so focused on the economy and the
 BK>  republican oil fraud


And you were doing so well.

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