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#1 2005-04-07 7:41 pm
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IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
IMF raises possibility of 'permanent oil shock'
Predicting surging demand from emerging countries and limited new supplies from outside the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after 2010, Raghuram Rajan, IMF chief economist, said:
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#2 2005-04-07 7:52 pm
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Some people would rather use their super tunnelvision to follow that carrot they're tied to than to see all the free carrots on the side of the road.
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#3 2005-04-07 8:07 pm
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Re: IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
Question: Doesn't oil cost more than $50 a barrel now?
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#4 2005-04-07 8:59 pm
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Re: IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
The New Guy wrote:
Question: Doesn't oil cost more than $50 a barrel now?
Right around there, yeah.
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#5 2005-04-07 9:06 pm
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#6 2005-04-07 9:27 pm
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I think the oil companies are really just pocketing the extra $$$ and telling people there's an oil crisis.
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#7 2005-04-07 9:33 pm
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I love it. Im so happy oil prices are high and i hope they go higher so this dependance in oil finally comes to an end.
Right now the amount of oil in alaska is a drop in the bucket compaired to how much the US really uses and how much other counties can supply. I always hear about how the US needs to drill there for oil reserves and to bring down the price. What smurfin idiots. If that isn't a short term band aid solution I don't know what is.
*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#8 2005-04-07 9:34 pm
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ShnickyShnack wrote:
The New Guy wrote:
Question: Doesn't oil cost more than $50 a barrel now?
Right around there, yeah.
I thought it was closer to $60?
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#9 2005-04-07 9:54 pm
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We should have kept our sweaters on like Jimmy told us to during the 70's!
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#10 2005-04-07 10:02 pm
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matt wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
The New Guy wrote:
Question: Doesn't oil cost more than $50 a barrel now?
Right around there, yeah.
I thought it was closer to $60?
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#11 2005-04-07 11:39 pm
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MrJ in OZ wrote:
I love it. Im so happy oil prices are high and i hope they go higher so this dependance in oil finally comes to an end.
I take it you take a bike to work (assuming you work, I know that is a rarity among liberals)?
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#12 2005-04-07 11:41 pm
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*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#13 2005-04-07 11:42 pm
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Thats all I hear about someone who thinks ethicaly and realizes they are not the only person on the planet (or only country).
*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#14 2005-04-07 11:46 pm
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I take public transport. But even If I owned a car I would only use it on the weekend and still use public transport. Besides, blame yourselves for not making your government make bater pulic trans and demanding better gas millage cars rather than those SUV greedy smurf use up all the oil and pollute everyones air automobiles.
*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#15 2005-04-08 12:21 am
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Make the government make people buy cars you want them to drive you mean?
Using public transportation is bad too- remember, you want "dependance in oil finally comes to an end."
You are going to have to walk to work barefoot or in hand-made wooden scandals with a leather strap, I'm afraid.
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#16 2005-04-08 12:28 am
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Using public transportation is bad too-
Yup - a report from UC Berkeley (heard it on the radio) sais people on buses in LA inhale something like 6 times the toxic fumes that people who don't ride buses do.
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#17 2005-04-08 12:35 am
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Make the government make people buy cars you want them to drive you mean?
Yes, force people not to be selfish dumbasses, cause many certainly won't do it on their own.
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#18 2005-04-08 12:39 am
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Re: IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
gradient wrote:
MrJ in OZ wrote:
I love it. Im so happy oil prices are high and i hope they go higher so this dependance in oil finally comes to an end.
I take it you take a bike to work (assuming you work, I know that is a rarity among liberals)?
Slanderous troll.
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#19 2005-04-08 12:39 am
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#20 2005-04-08 12:41 am
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I think you mean shill
Okay fine.
Shill troll.
(Slanderous shill?)
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#21 2005-04-08 12:41 am
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#22 2005-04-08 12:42 am
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How 'bout Shrill Trollish Shill?
...and now we dance!
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#23 2005-04-08 4:06 am
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MrJ in OZ wrote:
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#24 2005-04-08 4:08 am
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Re: IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
MrJ in OZ wrote:
I love it. Im so happy oil prices are high and i hope they go higher so this dependance in oil finally comes to an end.
Right now the amount of oil in alaska is a drop in the bucket compaired to how much the US really uses and how much other counties can supply. I always hear about how the US needs to drill there for oil reserves and to bring down the price. What smurfin idiots. If that isn't a short term band aid solution I don't know what is.
it isn't any solution to anything other than to make $$$$ for the oil lobby. ie, the people who got "w" elected and the people cheney will be ceo for in a few years.
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Re: IMF: "Beware of permanent oil shock!"
ShnickyShnack wrote:
IMF raises possibility of 'permanent oil shock'
Predicting surging demand from emerging countries and limited new supplies from outside the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after 2010, Raghuram Rajan, IMF chief economist, said:
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