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To: IrishMike
What about those "skyrocketing" housing prices in California & Florida (well, up until last year)? What about those skyrocketing advertising prices that the networks charge for ad time during the super bowl? What about those skyrocketing prices that plumbers charge on holidays?

It's all gouging, I tell you! /sarc

Despite the socialist's best efforts, supply and demand still rule the market always. The leftist government has done everything it can to screw up the supply side of the oil market, and now they're whining because limited supply is causing a price rise. They need only look in the mirror to see the cause of high gasoline prices. They put every conceivable barrier up to block drilling off-shore and in ANWR, and they have successfully blocked the construction of numerous refining plants. And now they whine when the market does exactly what markets do when demand is high relative to supply.

143 posted on 05/31/2007 9:38:01 AM PDT by meyer (RNC, DNC, two sides of the same coin.)
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To: meyer

Like the post, and the tag line.


146 posted on 05/31/2007 9:47:02 AM PDT by IrishMike ( What happens when aliens breed with sheep ? - Democrats)
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