Eboni Khan

Then Americans are pretty fucking dumb. The price of oil is set on a global market, not just for the US.

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Cristiano

I think the terrorist boogeyman is only going so far. The further away we get from 9/11 with no additional attacks, the less it is at the forefront of voters minds. it does get trumped out during the campaign as a scare tactic, but the economy is in such dismal shape and people are tired of seeing billions of dollars go to iraq that could be used to rebuild our own country. The War on Terror doesn't have the sway it once did.

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Sooz Pascale

That's certainly part of the story. However, as Paul Harver is fond of saying, "Here's the REST of the story." Yes, the price of oil per barrell is set by suppliers in the global market. The US oil companies are basically middlemen and most Americans are smart enough to know when they're being gouged. Example: how many times in the past few years have prices at the pump taken a sudden upturn due to refineries being shut down for repairs or being damaged in a hurricane, like the recent ones in the gulf coast? After these sudden and significant price spikes, does the price go down as soon as or as far as it went up? Answer is NO! The US oil companies have been price gouging and getting away with it for years.

More and more people are waking up to this fact now.

Sooz

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