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One thing to keep in mind is the Democrats won control of both Congress and Senate in 2006 November elections. Since then they have fought and won not releasing any oil reserves we had and still have in the U.S. The price of oil will never come down unless we start tapping into the billions upon billions of barrels oil we have right here in areas of the country. We also need to dismantle the Dept of energy which formed by Carter which supposed to ween this country of the need of foreign oil.
20+ years later our percentage of dependence of foreign oil went from 30% then up to over 70% today.
Ericynot wrote: No president has any control over the stock market, so you're just being paranoid. Moreover, you apparently don't pay much attention to that market because it's been climbing very steadily for the last 3 years. I think it's done about all it's going to do for a while and is more likely to fall before the election, especially if we get any bad news out of Europe or China, two other things over which the president has essentially no control. . -Saint Obama Performs another Miracle by Making Unemployment Recede
Dear Comrade Y,
Actually the stock market has...
Something is very wrong. Either our currency is worth a lot less than we are being told, or someone is making one hell of a profit. But still, the oil company profits are not rising enough to account for the discrepancy in prices.