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Really, Really Cheap Oil
Forbes.com ^ | Christopher Helman

Posted on 10/11/2006 9:39:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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This is a very rosy scenario -- it ignores "geo-political" risks that could cause oil to spike sharply up.

Just my opinion of course. Color me skeptical (or maybe just pessimistic)

1 posted on 10/11/2006 9:39:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Nope you are right. This is an unusually rosy outlook.


2 posted on 10/11/2006 9:41:24 AM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

Damn. I've been paying $1.93 at WalMart.


3 posted on 10/11/2006 9:41:31 AM PDT by Paisan
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Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

I'm already paying less than $2 per gallon.
4 posted on 10/11/2006 9:43:19 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

Umm... we already have that here in the DFW area.

5 posted on 10/11/2006 9:44:46 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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If true...and I believe it could very well be true...this will TANK chavez BIG TIME!!!


6 posted on 10/11/2006 9:45:58 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

And both of my Jaguars are very, very happy about that - because now they get unleashed more often. :)


7 posted on 10/11/2006 9:48:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Oil, at a recent $66.50 a barrel, will fall to $45 by mid-2007 and could dip briefly into the 20s in 2008. Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

The Holy Guru of oil, Boone Pickens, declared oil would hit $70 before oil hit $50 on the trusted news source, CBNC> Thus, oil prices are set in stone, the bushing bush, Pickens degreed it...

8 posted on 10/11/2006 9:48:47 AM PDT by 100-Fold_Return (Soros hates MEGA-churches, Televanglists, and Wal-Mart)
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I've been paying $1.93 at WalMart.

Yep. Around Atlanta it's easy to find $1.90-$1.95 gasoline. Of course the major media which counted every cent when prices were increasing have yet to stumble over the story of gasoline's plunging prices. When televised news manages to comment, the video always seems to show the price of premium just to make good news look not so good.

9 posted on 10/11/2006 9:48:59 AM PDT by catpuppy
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Bushs' fault?


10 posted on 10/11/2006 9:50:09 AM PDT by glorgau
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I like how they relate a 25-year-old story of his run-in with a burglar and then follow that with:

The incident triggered a mild form of posttraumatic stress that he keeps in check with low doses of antidepressants. The pills, he insists, do not affect his outlook on the long-term health of the world oil supply.

Hey folks! He suffers from a mental illness! And he's on drugs! But, hey, that's no reason to discount his theory ...

Why would a journalist throw such a slam into an "objective" news story??

11 posted on 10/11/2006 9:50:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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Let's poll all the minority views of all the experts. Since we are all expert, although some may have more data than others, the best poll would be the NYMEX, which is everybody's opinion expressed in cold, hard cash with some margin for the richer, more venturesome players. NYMEX says 58.50 to 62.00 for the months ahead. What it will be in two years not even the experts wish to guess--not where it counts.


12 posted on 10/11/2006 9:50:27 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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It will never drop to the $20s while it is the energy monopoly. It will only drop to the $20s when the market produces a competitor.


13 posted on 10/11/2006 9:53:50 AM PDT by mysterio
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ping


14 posted on 10/11/2006 9:56:43 AM PDT by ocr1
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To: BenLurkin
Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

I predict that it will happen before the end of the year - but I don't live in Mass. $1.98 is the cheapest in my neighborhood at the moment.

15 posted on 10/11/2006 9:56:48 AM PDT by PAR35
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"Oil, at a recent $66.50 a barrel, will fall to $45 by mid-2007 and could dip briefly into the 20s in 2008."

From Helman's mouth to God's ear. :-]
Although, as many have pointed out, they are already paying under two bucks a gallon and the national average is around 2.25 now.


16 posted on 10/11/2006 10:00:02 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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Sometime next year you are going to see a $1.95 price on a gas pump.

Umm...several places here were $1.93 last week.

17 posted on 10/11/2006 10:00:46 AM PDT by RockinRight (She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
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Well we are Not there yet here on the Left Coast, but ARCO & Valermo stations now under 2.50.


18 posted on 10/11/2006 10:01:19 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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