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mcv57 says:
The political terrain is shifting. Attitudes toward the US are a case in point. The move toward neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the US as the country to be aped and copied. ..... Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

How perceptions of the US have changed: a country living beyond its means, dependent on large helpings of Asian credit, characterized by huge inequalities, its great financial institutions guilty of huge folly, forced to rely for their salvation on the sovereign wealth funds of China and elsewhere. And, remember, we are only at the very beginning of the biggest geopolitical shift since the dawn of the industrial era.

%u2014 Martin Jacques is visiting research fellow at the Asia research centre, London School of Economics


Arab newspapers, believe it. The refinery is another corporate ploy to jack-up the price. Bushwacker''s good ole oil buddies are going for bust.

There is desention in the military ranks. Now, Kosovo going to start a Serb war!

Military draft for all you younger people . . . its just around the corner. Supreme Court is allowing spying on U.S. citizens. This senario is incredibly violatile. Dear Lord, I''ll take the first nuke right on my head, JUST MAKE THE SECOND ONE LAND ON BUSH.
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jims47 says:
There is one reason and at the moment one reason only that these prices are seen. Future purchaser''s. The public is held hostage by their greed. I recently tracked price increases before Katrina and was dismayed at how that one tragedy was used for a spiraling upward rise in prices. Pre Katrina rises where on average every six months, and in small incrments. Now it is every three weeks with huge increases. YES, we need to do a lot of things to reduce our use of oil, but crying we are out of it is a lame excuse. Everytime a middle east ruler farts our prices increase 10 cents or more. And yes we do need more refineries.
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tcoleman12 says:
This refinery incident in Texas is not the reason we should get away from refining oil. This is precisely the reason we should build NEW refineries in this country.

No new refineries have been built in 30 years. If one goes down, look at what happens.
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rudy654-2009 says:
Where are all the lame excuses about how the oil price is influenced by all these demands???? These people will put the economy in a hole and dance around it in the end.
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