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walrus said:
2 Dem senators are done in 2010.
I guess Chris Dodd is doing the Dems a favor by retiring. Dorgans seat may shift to a repub?
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Yeah, Dorgan's seat is a loss, Dodd's seat is now a hold with Blumenthal getting in the race. Pretty much evens out, except for North Dakota is now guaranteed to switch.

Makes me wonder why the GOP didn't get Rell to make that Senate race. That probably would have scared off the Dem AG. This race was always about Dodd. With him out, you're left with an ex-Congressman, a WWF exec, and a few other screwballs to face an sitting statewide officeholder. Contrast that to ND, where a popular governor was waiting to pounce as soon as Dorgan stepped aside.
 
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So, is gas being $1 more expensive per gallon than it was a year ago because some people are getting free gas or are we all paying more so it can be free for everybody in the future?

It can't be due to a cold winter because the planet is getting warmer.
 
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pirate said:
So, is gas being $1 more expensive per gallon than it was a year ago because some people are getting free gas or are we all paying more so it can be free for everybody in the future?

It can't be due to a cold winter because the planet is getting warmer.
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Um, gas never actually got cheaper, it just appeared so because of the recession curbing demand and the dollar being relatively weak.

As the economy improves (and as the markets have rebounded), oil prices have increased. This was expected.
 
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blockski said:
Um, gas never actually got cheaper, it just appeared so because of the recession curbing demand and the dollar being relatively weak.

As the economy improves (and as the markets have rebounded), oil prices have increased. This was expected.
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Except the economy hasn't improved to the point where prices would be driven up this much. While there are many factors I think the biggest one is inflationary pressure as people flock to commodities to use as a hedge.
 
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So I see based upon the unemployment numbers out today that the economy isn't really recovering the way the that the Administration and Wall Street would like us to believe. Worst news of all is that the "under-employment" rate rose to 17.3 percent. :(

But hey, we might, possibly, hopefully, get a Health Care bill that might, possibily, hopefully help some people out. Now if only they could find work. No loss in priorities there. :rolleyes:
 
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blockski said:
Um, gas never actually got cheaper, it just appeared so because of the recession curbing demand and the dollar being relatively weak.

As the economy improves (and as the markets have rebounded), oil prices have increased. This was expected.
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Doesn't a weak dollar make gas prices higher as oil prices are based on the dollar?
 
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MattS said:
So I see based upon the unemployment numbers out today that the economy isn't really recovering the way the that the Administration and Wall Street would like us to believe. Worst news of all is that the "under-employment" rate rose to 17.3 percent. :(
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Of course it isn't. Wall Street destroys the economy and jobs and then bases the recovery on itself and not jobs.

It's a beautiful thing.
 
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walrus said:
Doesn't a weak dollar make gas prices higher as oil prices are based on the dollar?
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Well, that's certainly part of it. I guess my initial post wasn't all that clear. When the recession really kicked into high gear, oil prices fell. There was plenty of correlation between the weak dollar and oil prices when gas was pushing 4 bucks a gallon back in early 2008.

So, once the crash happened, oil prices dropped big time - offsetting the component of the dollar's weakness in those prices. And now that the markets have stabilized, it's again a factor.

Sorry, that wasn't very clear. Should have said 'with the dollar being weak,' not 'and'.
 
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Someone else said the same thing recently, I'm thinking Mary Matelin. "We had no terrorist attacks under the Bush Administration".


Now, if you consider the underwear bomber failing to ignite the explosives in his shorts a terrorist attack, then you have to also admit that shoebomber Richard Reid, who used the exact same explosive and failed to ignite it, a terrorist attack also.

This leaves aside the entire fact of 9/11. Rudi "noun, verb, and 9/11" Giuliani should have known better.

But, Repubs lie. It's all they got.
 
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rufus said:
Someone else said the same thing recently, I'm thinking Mary Matelin. "We had no terrorist attacks under the Bush Administration".


Now, if you consider the underwear bomber failing to ignite the explosives in his shorts a terrorist attack, then you have to also admit that shoebomber Richard Reid, who used the exact same explosive and failed to ignite it, a terrorist attack also.

This leaves aside the entire fact of 9/11. Rudi "noun, verb, and 9/11" Giuliani should have known better.

But, Repubs lie. It's all they got.
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Fortunately no one sent anthrax through the mail either.
 
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4,000,0000 lost jobs, gas 1.30 more per gallon, the debt has tripled, Xmas day bomber gets on a plane and the system works, beer gate, health care reform is going to bring down the deficit. It took Jimmy Carter 4 years do fk up as bad as this.;)
 
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blockski said:
Um, gas never actually got cheaper, it just appeared so because of the recession curbing demand and the dollar being relatively weak.

As the economy improves (and as the markets have rebounded), oil prices have increased. This was expected.
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So, I should pay $24 dollars to fill up and tell the attendant it only appears the pump says $38?

Tell you what, you try it first and let us know how it goes. Maybe it will only appear that the police come to settle the issue.
 
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walrus said:
Doesn't a weak dollar make gas prices higher as oil prices are based on the dollar?
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lets not forget that Obama has curbed NONE of the speculative trading measures and derivative and gambling type of trading. NONE. For the new moral open and public advocate administration they've seem to have forgotten about this.
 
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