Comments on: Oil Prices Briefly Top $103 A Barrel

Record Prices Retreat After Sell-Off, But Experts Warn Fuel Prices May Rise Again

[observer2020]

Most peoples have gone up.....must be personal choices made...not the presidents fault

Posted by jwind11 at 02:37 PM : Feb 29, 2008

It''s not the President''s fault? What color is the sky when you look up? Of course it''s his fault. He''s the one that''s let (and encouraged) the economy getting so out of hand. Don''t forget he''s got his fingers in the oil business, too. So he is, among others, are laughing all the way to the bank. I have made more cut backs in my style of living over the past two Presidential terms than ever. Buying gas so I can get to and from work, food, fuel oil for my heater, has become paramount in my household...things like new electronic equipment, and other "toys", are totally out and have been for quite a while. The people whose lifestyle has gone up are among those with huge credit card/housing debt. If I don''t have the cash, I don''t buy it. And saving has become harder with the price of everything.

[jwind11]

It''''''''s bad it''''''''s getting worse by the minute. My standard of living has gone down constantly for decades and it isn''''''''t getting any better.

Posted by skyk at 12:59 PM : Feb 29, 2008

Most peoples have gone up.....must be personal choices made...not the presidents fault

Posted by jwind11 at 02:37 PM : Feb 29, 2008

[randynason]

Thanks, George. I sure do ''preciate you thinking of me and my complete willingness to let you bleed me as dry as a cow-pie in mid-July. You''re one unforgetable world leader and I''m sure gonna miss ya, come next January. NOT!!! Oh, by the way- Let''s not forget those war crimes now, ya hear?!

[bubbavh1005]

and so the rebellion nears... Down with big oil and their speculators!

[mrconservatv]

Strangely enough, Repukons are not complaining about the Oil price hikes. I think they don''''t drive cars. They just creep over their bellies in front of their masters the Neo-cons to move around and the AIPACkies. Little slaves Repukons...


Posted by grazinggoat at 02:00 PM : Feb 29, 2008

Don''t forget they also donate money to the Billionaire Churches so their pastors can wear Rolex%u2019s, Armani suites and fly around in private jets to their coastal mansions and million dollar condos.

Real bright people

[lochlan-2009]

MBCSMITH, try reading again (I know this is asking a lot of you) and answer the question asked, not your beliefs on how they spend it.

The banks and the oil companies are on the same side, the Bush Administration. Picture this, the banks devalue the dollar by bringing the interest rate down to 1% and printing huge amounts of cash to feed inflation. The oil industry, that prices out their product around the world in dollars, now has to charge more for their oil, since the dollar isn''t worth as much. Americans pay inflated prices with their devalued currency. Chevron''s and Exxon''s... see their $40billion record earnings and put it in the bank, (this money isn''t worth $40billion globaly, yet, it''s worth the devalued dollar amount). They switch teams and put the Dems. in office, who raise taxes and the interest rates and the value of the dollar comes back to where it was in 2001.


Answer me this, what now happens to the global worth of that $40billion the oil company put in the bank?

[grazinggoat]

Oil Prices Briefly Top $103 A Barrel
Record Prices Retreat After Sell-Off, But Experts Warn Fuel Prices May Rise Again

-I like the word experts. It means it all. Experts in stealing, in pick-pocketing, in swarming in your account and s*ck every penny out of it.

-Strangely enough, Repukons are not complaining about the Oil price hikes. I think they don''t drive cars. They just creep over their bellies in front of their masters the Neo-cons to move around and the AIPACkies. Little slaves Repukons...

[mrconservatv]

It is renvested in exploration, equipment and rights to oil fields, some pays dividends to shareholders and some pays debt.



Posted by mbcsmith at 01:24 PM : Feb 29, 2008

mbcsmith, the $40 billion was profit! Over and above expenses...get real!


Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 01:53 PM : Feb 29, 2008


mbcsmith greatest gift is his ability to talk out of both ends at the same time

[rowdytexan2]

It is renvested in exploration, equipment and rights to oil fields, some pays dividends to shareholders and some pays debt.



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Posted by mbcsmith at 01:24 PM : Feb 29, 2008

mbcsmith, the $40 billion was profit! Over and above expenses...get real!

[mrconservatv]

The Devil''s Tears
The Politics of Oil and Human Rights in Central Asia

Spring 2004


By Lutz C. Kleveman

As a result of its aggressive pursuit of energy interests in Central Asia and its need for antiterrorist allies, the Bush administration has courted some of the region''s nastiest autocrats, including Azerbaijan''s Aliyev, Kazakhstan''s Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Pakistan''s Pervez Musharraf.

But the most tyrannical of Washington''s new allies is Uzbekistan''s Islam Karimov. Under the rule of this ex-communist dictator, tens of thousands of political and religious prisoners languish in the country''s overcrowded jails; many are tortured and executed. "Such people must be shot in the head. If necessary, I will shoot them myself," Karimov once famously told his rubber-stamp parliament. After an assassination attempt in 1999, Agence France-Presse quoted him as saying, "I''m prepared to rip off the heads of 200 people, to sacrifice their lives, in order to save peace and calm in the republic. ... If my child chose such a path, I myself would rip off his head."

Since then, Amnesty International has documented an average of more than 30 executions a year in Uzbekistan, many in secret. Last December, on the eve of an international conference on the death penalty %u2014 organized by a local NGO and which AI was scheduled to attend %u2014 Uzbek authorities forced its cancellation.