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Associated Press Makes Excuses for High Gas Prices
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Chris Kahn and John Porretto
Associated Press
February 16, 2009
Editor’s note: High gas prices are the fault of a “energy market turned upside-down,” and have nothing to do with a conspiracy to fleece the commoners. Sure. And there is a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. So you’d think gas prices would sink right along with them.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Not so.
On Thursday, for example, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to $1.95 on the same day, its peak for the year. On Friday gas went a penny higher.
To drivers once again grimacing as they tank up, it sounds like a conspiracy. But it has more to do with an energy market turned upside-down that has left gas cut off from its usual economic moorings.
The price of gas is indeed tied to oil. It’s just a matter of which oil.
The benchmark for crude oil prices is West Texas Intermediate, drilled exactly where you would imagine. That’s the price, set at the New York Mercantile Exchange, that you see quoted on business channels and in the morning paper.
Right now, in an unusual market trend, West Texas crude is selling for much less than inferior grades of crude from other places around the world. A severe economic downturn has left U.S. storage facilities brimming with it, sending prices for the premium crude to five-year lows.
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February 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
J.P Morgan wanted “to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States.” and”an editor was placed at each paper to insure that all published information was keeping with the new policy.”
oil chox Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
please refer to the Infowars series by Pastor Lindsey Williams were he correctly elucidates the oil companies manipulation of the market and prices. They drove the prices sky high, and now are dropping them to the floor to bankrupt OPEC nations.
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rudedog Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I couldn’t agree more. This is probably the first time in history the price of crude is dropping to new lows yet prices are rising at the pump. The new world order has got to go. I’m a patriot thru and thru, I’ll be doing my part to fight these bastards.
fw2009 Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
manifested demons looking like angels. cant put something like that on video. “NO ANGEL ATTACKS” us.
LuckyOne Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Normally, I’m a mellow man, but even I am getting tired of this Guardian Angels crap. Stop posting it in every blasted board unless said angels are directly involved.
Or how about this. If we’re going to go off the subject, I would like to mention how cool I thought “Blue Velvet” was (the movie). Let me do a rant about that!
February 16th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I know this is a broad question but… Is this article accurate or just a bunch of BS? I know oil pricing is complex, but given the last few years we all know its fixed. Lindsay williams said that the price of oil would stay below $50 and gas would stay around $1.50. Granted he does not know everything but i wonder what has changed. WHO or WHAT is driving the prices back up even though oil is dirt cheap? Anyone know or care to speculate?
4w578i Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Why did he say it would stay that way, and did it happen?
Ex roughneck Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Look man…it is all controlled. When I worked in Wyoming on oil rigs we would drill…strike oil and cap off. I asked why and was told it was new oil and wouldn’t bring in as much as “old” oil. They wait 4 years then it becomes old oil and they begin to pump it out at the higher price.
THERE ARE 100’s OF CAPPED WELLES IN WYOMING. THE oil company’s want to use everyone else’s oil first then they can get what ever they want for “ours”
AMERCIA….few eagles……too many turkeys!!!!!
razor Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
THE PRICE HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND. THE BANKS CONTROL THE COMMODITY MARKETS AND DETERMINE WHAT THEIR WILLING TO PAY. THE MIDDLE EAST OWNS THE FIELDS BUT THE COMMODITY MARKET SETS THE PRICE.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:36 am
“High gas prices are the fault of a “energy market turned upside-down…”
Deflation makes prices higher?
remember9/11 Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
when we demand gas like we do, yes, deflation makes prices higher. Our dumb asses go and still pay for it knowing how hard we are getting fucked in the ass. Silly americans we are.
likestodrive Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
do you like to walk everywhere you go?
Sheeple Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Yes, when I know I can.
I see fat asses drive five blocks to the quick mart to buy ice cream and lottery tickets. Welcome to America. Instant gratification.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:41 am
well well well…premium crude oil overflowing and cannot give it away? seems to me not 6 months ago the world was running out and there were no reserve oil storage to be had? Funny how time has a way of healing everything isnt it….lol…anyhow brothers and sisters in the fight for whats right..It’s time to move on these corrupt people that tend to enslave us…we really dont need to sit around and allow them more time to prepare for our soon to be demise. Thats just my opinion.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:54 am
And i still want alex jones to make my anus go red
February 16th, 2009 at 11:59 am
The oil companies are virtual monopolies in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; however, the Justice Dept of any administration is reluctant to oppose them, since every admin. is owned by them. They can set prices as they want, since they control oil at all levels of production and sale.
The New World Order is alive and well!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hummm that makes my dick go hard humm alex you’re so exciting when you talk about NWO hummmm …
Jeff Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Although repugnant, I encourage you to keep doing what your doing. Why, you may ask? Well im sure you dont ask many questions, that is the reason you get paid to destroy your own future. But for you handlers, here it is.
The opposition you falsely create, creates a perception in newcomers minds that the persecuted are right. You cant win even when you try. Maybe thats your problem, you try to hard.
May you one day wake up before its too late.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
You want to see the control and manipulation of this market?
I pay $2.45 a gallon here in Alaska and we have a refinery and the pipe line. It is all controlled and manipulated just like we are.
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
The sick, twisted weirdos have shown up again. Grow up, you losers. You are nothing but shills for the neo-cons.
Sir Baby De Porky Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
It’s revealing though , how uninspired / uninspiring ( i.e. hard up ) they are !!!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
May i give you a blowie too Alex ? oh please i’m already on my knees …
Chris Cudnoski Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Could the moderators possibly censor this site and remove distracting comments like this one?
Oh, and if another comment is added after mine with my name it’s not me, it’s our troll. I don’t want to blow anyone, not even A.J.
Mr.T Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I agree. I’m not for censorship but this site is getting ridiculous with the trolls and dis-informers.
Jeff Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Im telling you, everything they attempt to do backfires. So worry not and let them dig their own hole. Inquisitive newcomers will pick up on the childish antics in a hurry and question why someone would do that? Why would they want to distract people? It will become cystal clear to them that what they are reading must be the truth and that the establishment is creating diversions. The cat is out of the bag fellas. Might as well repent and get right with God so the patriots have mercy on your soul in this life and God in the next.
just an observation... Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I’ve been reading up on this site 4 about a month now. These brain dead vulgar morons, leaving these ridicilous comments, are really out full force now. Is it just me or have they all popped up after that “Cover of Vogue El Diablo Sign”? Or where they leaving these waste of space comments @ such rapid speed b4?!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Any excuse to raise prices. Got to keep up with those record profits.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I’ll raise my prices too now … 50 bucks for a blowie guys , sorry I need to eat …
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Disgusting!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
This does not make since..gas prices going up but oil down. This does not compute….looking for my bottle of texaspete…getting cold down here in Texas..
February 16th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Its getting cold i need a fat black cock in my ass hummmmmm …
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
You are sick.
likestodrive Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
yes you do
February 16th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Associated Press are partners in high crime, protecting organized criminals of the highest kind, the one’s you least expect and the one’s you can never believe could do anything wrong, even when everything points to them as the one’s that are doing everything wrong and on purpose. If you don’t know that yet, you are one of the many fools and you got a long way to go. Period !
February 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
i like foot fetish i want to lick alex jones feet hummm
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Go play with Rush Limbaugh’s, loser.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
BuLLLshit…plain and simple!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
February 16th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Leave it to the msm to come up with another lie.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
gas should be $1/gallon. also, due to better technology we should be getting 100 miles per gallon with our vehicles.
just imagine how much more money we would have in our pockets if my prior statements were true…
February 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Wheres daddy i need my ass to get spanked hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
You people need to grow UP!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I need cocks hummmm deep hummm
Snidely Whiplash Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
LOSER!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
REPENT.UNITE.RESIST.
Myfriendscallmetiny Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Just ignore the trolls – intelligence and integrity will shine through – devote your efforts to the truth and may I suggest that one considers faith in GOD and Jesus Christ.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
REPENT.UNITE.RESIST.TAKE IT DEEP IN YOUR HOLE.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Lets see Exxon made Record profits of 42 Billion + last year, that is more money than the corporation I work for did in total gross revenues. Before Layoffs started after Xmas we employed almost 400,000 with living wages, and benefits, and facilitated global commerce. Now were taxed by supplying the Global Defense force to protect Oil supplies, while we let Public Corporations Buy, Sell, and Produce our Fuel for a profit. We also let them TELL us what is the Global supply of such product with NO OVERSIGHT. It is like having Enron not only do it’s own accounting, but also doing the Outside Auditor function for it also, then relying on that data to make choices. Until we start to threaten the OIL INDUSTRY with the N word, NATIONALIZATION we won’t see prices come down anytime soon to what they should be. We have seen what happens when the Banksters control everything, and are paying the price for that. Until we regain control over all aspects of our economy we are going to be held hostage, and wage slaves for all these enities.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
It was back in the fall of 08 in Asheville NC and you could not find a gallon of gas anywhere. Then if you found some you had to sit in 1 mile lines and pay 4 pluss dollars a gal. There was no reason for the lack of fule then and I have not seen anything that explains why this happened. It was like when during Katrina but nothing had change last fall. Just the lack of fule and info. It was bad they even shut down schools in Asheville because of no gas for buses and still no explaination. Makes you wonder.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
It’s time to start going after the media members that keep the lie going. They have the power to inform, yet they would rather keep their high paying jobs than be honest with Americans and have open debates about important issues. They need to pay for their crimes against us. People have died because of their lies. It’s time we return the favor.
razor Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
WE WILL WIN AND THEY WILL BE PUNISHED!!! GIVEN THE GRAVITY OF THEIR CRIMES THEY VERY WELL INDEED MAY BE EXECUTED.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Gas prices up, food prices up, gun and ammo prices up. Inflation anyone?
Jason the Fed
February 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Check the memorandum to President Obama from the Orion Project about how we can solve the so-called “energy crisis” immediately:
http://www.theorionproject.org/Energy.pdf
Here’s a small quote from it:
“Unfortunately, many of the greatest advances in this area of science and technology have been illegally classified through abuses of the National Security Act, the Patent Law and other mechanisms. This needs to be corrected immediately. We have also identified brilliant scientists who wish to work with us to build these new energy technologies but they are being actively and aggressively prevented from doing so by illegal use of various national security provisions. One such scientist can create a prototype within 3-6 months that would permit every home and business in America to run on free, clean power.”
February 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I agree, the price of gas now is just f’ing ridiculous. The masses are not complaining because it’s not $4.00 a gallon so there’s no pressure to “investigate” the market.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
You guys are unbelievable. I wrote a response to this article and you did not even post it…..why?…because it breaks down the truth about gas prices going higher on demand???…are you only trying to encite anger on this site and not provide facts??….Im a regular on this site and normally like it, but this is changing my mind….on how slanted you are trying to be……im very disappointed.
Mr.T Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Take a deep breath there… It has happened to me several times.
It’s not the moderators, its the crappy servers that are used.
That is why this site needs our support financially so it can be upgraded.
Dont be angry, just repost… “copy” your comment if its taken you a while to write up just in case, so you can just “paste” it.
roaddog Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
It’s been happening to me alot in the last 5 days. I’ve been listening to aj since ‘00 and been on this site for over a year and never had a problem, until now. It started with the stories on the south of the boarder issues. I didn’t cuss or use deragatory statements, just kinda clowning, and they would post then get deleted a short time later along with any statements to other posters. This is a test.
Will Killyou Reply:
February 28th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Your an idiot or a liar! Crude products like gasoline are manipulated both in terms of availability (perceived scarcity) and at the market level. Gasoline prices are rising because the oil companies are reducing production and shutting down refineries (check out California fight to keep refinery open). By doin this they reduce the amount of product (gasoline) available on the open market. Traders who are certainly in with the refinery leaders then increase their position based on this impending reduction of availabilty. There is so much room for maniulation it’s ridiculous! How many industries can control the market price of their product by simply producing less?? Demand will lesson in a slow economy but it will never cease, so simply produce just enough to maximize your profit after all that is the point of business in a capitalistic economy isnt it? In the vast majority of industries this model works at least for the most part as i dont know of a better model. The problem happens when the people living in an econmomy have certain life “needs” that they must pay far in order to function normaly in the economy. Gasoline has become a “need” in our economy and the economy of all industrialized nations. When a product becomes a “need” for the economy to function it is best handled by a governing body and not administered by those seeking to maximize profit. The amazing thing to me is that crude oil is located on public land and often these underground fields extend under private land but the oil companies have the right to extract this crude based on agreements with the government. The entire industry is a raquet as it always has been, even when gasoline was very cheap and even when Rockefeller bought his first oil field. The oil industry must be nationalized and research into new energies must move forward without the hindurance of corporate lobbiests hell-bent on slowing down such progress. A nationalized oil industry would take away the profit incetive and thus stabilize prices. Refining capacity and needs properly accessed ensuring that we have some refining headroom in the event of increased demand or disaster similar to that caused by a major huricane so that prices remain stable. Stability is the foundation of higher civilization as it allows the mind to be free.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
GAS PRICES ARE SUPER INFLATED BY THE ELITE RICH!
ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION BY DISOBEYING ALL LAWS
THAT INFRINGE ON THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND!
OBAMA IS MAITREYA! THE NEW AGE FALSE CHRIST!
SEE PROOF!
http://www.obamamaitreya.com
February 16th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
On an official note…please read my retort to the soRRRy MF’r that assumed my moniker!!! Pertaining to the 12:36 pm post that IS NOT mine!!! Scroll up, you’ll see it!!!! Gabe, you burnt shit here bro’!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
roaddog Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I didn’t think that sounded like you. It might be t.w.. Sounds like something it would say.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Demand for gas has actually climed up 2.6% over December/Holiday season….price is cheap…people are driving more…..dont look into any more than that………when opec cuts production to send oil up….well…there’s your conspiracy.
razor Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
WRONG DUDE BUT KEEP SEARCHING.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Fuck hope I’m Optimistic
Ron Paul For the American Awakening 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....l_politics
February 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Alex said a long time ago he would be harassed by a bunch of government shills. Now you see it in these comments. Anyway, the traditional media and the 2 old political parties grew up together. They’re kind of like lifelong pals. Naturally they’ll do each other favors. I knew AP was full of it long before the Internet came along.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Oil and gasoline are highly manipulated markets. The pricing is also very complicated. Just because the crude oil price is low, there are many other distillates that come from the crude oil. Home heating oil at this time of year is taking a big bite out of a barrel of crude and competing for the amount of oil that makes its way to becoming gasoline. So, some of what they say in the article is accurate, but they also should acknowledge the price fixing and manipulation that goes on.
Jimmy Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Absolutely manipulated.
Now, when will natural resources, such as crude oil will become property of the population of a country, rather than some rich fat cat? What is the moral rationale for granting property rights to 1 or a few people, over the rest of the population? For as long as the few own, monopolize & manipulate our resources (at the point of their guns), we will always be at the mercy of their whim. Will this ever change? I guess not in our lifetimes, & perhaps never in this world. The same is true w/ the Federal Reserve. If “We The People” owned the profit the bankers make, instead of them, then the debt & the profit would balance each other out, & perhaps then, we would realize that not only is this profit irrational & immoral, is really “not needed” at all, for an economy to be able to function. The purpose of the paper currency is just so that we don’t have to carry gold or silver coins in our pockets, but also to provide a medium of exchange where things can be given a value, whether its labor, or goods & services, so that we can exchange for the same. The Fed has got-to-go if we are ever going to be Free & productive Nation ever again. At the rate we are going the NWO is just about to crush US into the 70 year echo (1939 – 2009) of Nazi Germany’s WWII.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Congress should have taken these big oil companies and busted them up into small little ones to teach them a lesson that they cannot make billions of dollars per quarter and fuck the consumer on the way. But what can you expect when that troll, nancy balogni used nearly $100,000 of tax payer money to buy flowers?
Here comes obastard’s stimulus plan–$13 (thirteen dollars only) increase in each of our paychecks.
“if we stand up and make these tough decisions and work hard, we are still going to be wrong 40% of the time.”
—joe biden
February 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Hey Alex, you are probably right about anything, but not the spider goats^^ . I will believe the spider goat story as soon as i see one^^
me Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm
February 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I smile and laugh every time I pass a gas / diesel station ’cause I make my own biodiesel. Haven’t filled up at a station since I can’t remember………HAAAAAA ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa……..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……….
February 16th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
No…… the Dollar is collapsing, idiots !! Today high oil tomorrow…….$50.00 Gal. of milk
February 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Associated Press Makes Excuses for High Gas Prices
February 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Unless you’re in the oil business, everyone knows this is simply a game of up/down bullshit with the big oil companies. if it was supply and demand like they would have us believe, then the price of gasoline would be going down. Instead oil prices continue to drop while gas prices continue to go up. I just wish they would come out and say…………. we’re gonna charge whatever we feel like and there’s nothing you can do about it. I’d respect that line of crap more than what they’re covering up with now. Just be honest for GOD’s sakes.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Associated Press Makes Excuses for High Gas Prices
Really? Whoodathunkit?
He who controls information controls the world. Mercury is good for you…just ask your local news.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
The bill is being signed tomorrow at the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver tomorrow. Anyone who lives in the area and has the least bit of conviction should be down there.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Obama Turns US Over To ‘New World Order’ On February 17th
02-16-2009 • Sorcha Faal (What Does It Mean.com)
President Obama has ‘agreed in principal‘ to totally surrender the sovereignty of the United States to the New World Order before this year has passed. Read Full Story
Make a Comment • Email this News Link • Send Letter to Editor
Reported by: Barbara Peterson
February 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I’M AMAZED AT HOW WELL CONNECTED THE ELITE SEEM TO BE. AP IN THEIR BACK POCKET, GOVERNMENT SHILLS SPREADING DISINFORMATION AND WANT-A-BE’S WHO HAVEN’T A CLUE AS TO WHY THEY CAN’T GET AHEAD. THE BETTER INFORMED WE BECOME BY ALEX AND HIS GUEST THE MORE IDENTIFIABLE THESE TURKEYS BECOME. YOU ROCK ALEX AND FRIENDS.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
This article is BS with a capital “B”
I not only work in the oil industry I have friends who for years have worked for the oil refineries. They told me recently that the oil companies are slowing production down (I.E. making less gas, diesel etc.) because they are trying to get a shortage of product to boost prices. Think about it, it only makes sense. Right now, oil companies are storing huge amounts of crude, in tanks, barges, and even crude oil tankers, waiting for the day that oil prices will (and they will my friends) go up to $70 – $80 + bbl. range. Buy low sell high! So, by refining oil at the lower rate in a glutted market makes little sense in the eyes of an oil business man. Why not reduce production, store the cheep oil in everything you can hold it in and wait for the market to correct? Make sense?
You can bet your bottom dollar that someone somewhere will start a middle east war to disrupt the oil flow soon. Why, look at the OPEC nations? They are getting slammed by the low prices. Do you think they would have a problem with someone throwing a match in that region to get the prices up? NO. So who will stop the Zionist / US war machine when they bomb Iran? Not those countries! Even Russia may even join in just to block the oil to get their oil prices up. Does any of this make sense to anyone?
Tman Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
hear hear. Oil is business just like any other business, you do what’s best for profits. Of course I don’t agree with doing the wrong thing to boost profits – like starting false wars.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I wish gas prices would rise to $5/gal. That’ll force Americans to use less of it! Higher gas prices keeps people away from gas guzzlers.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
So…
$34 + $10 = $44
Since gas was at $50 when prices where at $1.62 at the end of 2008 (according to the article) that should place gas prices at just under $1.50 or so, right?
What kind of fuzzy logic is this?
February 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I swear, I was listening to talk radio earlier today and they said that a AAA spokesperson said the reason gas is going up is because oil companies have cut down production because we’re not using or buying enough of it.
JAY-JAY Reply:
March 11th, 2009 at 1:39 am
I AGREE
February 16th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Two things. First Lets get rid of the fed regulations on oil so there would more compentation among oil companys . Which would by free market rules would lower the price. Two SInce we in the U.S. are so dependant on foregin oil , how bout we stop pissing off the people not the goverments of which we get this oil from.
oldnamvet Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Back in spring of 1966 I had just come home from VietNam,went to my corner ARCO station,gas 14 cents a gal and if ya got a fell up they gave you a set of drinking glasses,oh yea and a kid came out and pumped it for ya and checked your oil and washed you windshield.Now thats CHANGE RIGHT.All you old folks remember them days right.GOD put the gas in the ground for free and why are the middlemen(jews)rapeing us now.I know why do you.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
So, they’re buying oil cheap to bankrupt Russia and other anti-NWO countries, while raising the gas price to funnel money back into their pockets. I see the game.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Kind of like their gold and silver price manipulations.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
We have to warn people ASAP
http://www.warnthepeople.org
February 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Did I just hear a perfect example of double speak from the ASS Press?
February 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
OR…….go long Oil/Gas futures and make money off it!!……take the money out of the oil companies profits…hahaha
February 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
gas is 3.60 to 6.40 a gallon this year, it can go up or down 1.00 or more in hours.
We think it cost us .80 because we don’t realize what a liter is.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Do you wonder who’s pocket that $4+ a gallon gas profit went into?
February 16th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I want to see $7 gas. I want to see my neighbors suffer for their lack of concern and involvement.
Tman Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Agreed.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Wasn’t it interesting when Fed Nazi Paulson wanted the bankster bailout immediately and they waited one day the market went down 700 points on that day? I still think they did that themselves.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Look at how this moron disgraced himself and heaped shame, scorn, ridicule and humiliation on his family and his department! POST THIS EVERYWHERE YOU CAN!:
northjersey.com/news/crimeandcourts/39353857.html
February 17th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Here is an interesting take on the gold standard. It’s something I failed to think about before going to the gold standard. Long video, but worth the wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E0UPBtmTb0
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February 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
That guy has the best ideas on what is going on. I swear his videos are being held back.
There are a number of problems with the gold standard but you can’t raise those concerns in here because there are a lot of people in the movement who have been told that only gold can be used and they will call you a traitor and what not if you disagree.
In reality there is no movement. There is a bunch of name calling, bull shit and in fighting though.
February 17th, 2009 at 6:33 am
ANYONE HEAR about the big spy sattelite they just put up, with the 2nd biggest rocket ever.
i forget. but i did not see it on my illuminati news at six.
they dont want Americans to know becuase its expensive.
it was on daily planet tho.
S>W>E>D
February 17th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Used plassteel containers are not suitable for my storage needs
February 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Editor’s note: High gas prices are the fault of a “energy market turned upside-down,” and have nothing to do with a conspiracy to fleece the commoners. Sure. And there is a bridge for sale in Brooklyn. and i have land for sale on mars
February 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
1. Gasoline is trading separately. Google RBOB
2. Oil Companies are producing Heating Oil not Gasoline right now.
3. Simple, Supply and Demand Economics.
4. Americans think they deserve 50 cents a gallon.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
The entire excuse is pure BS. It sounds as if they’re saying that the WTI oil can’t get to the refineries because there are no pipelines, but surely someone is using this oil so where is it going and how is it getting there? A pipeline isn’t the only way to transfer crude. Even so, why not build the pipelines to use when WTI is cheaper. Put it in the stim plan. The cost of construction would stim the economy and create jobs a hell of a lot better than building Frisbee Golf courses will. Remember what Lindsey Williams said- by no means is the USA going to be allowed to be energy independent. We will continue to use foreign oil and foreign countries will use our oil. Interdependence is a tool of control because it forces everyone to watch everyone else. This is how one-world-government happens.