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Extracting more oil wouldn’t bring down gas prices, no matter how much Limbaugh and his friends want it to

This man displays a stunning ignorance of the simplest principle in economics - the law of supply and demand.

Of course, he wouldn't know anything about that, since he operates in an imaginary industry where those things are rendered obsolete by a steady influx of money stolen from the taxpayers.

19 posted on 03/13/2012 10:26:25 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
Extracting more oil wouldn’t bring down gas prices, no matter how much Limbaugh and his friends want it to

Standard liberal canard, and like most liberal canards, totally false

59 posted on 03/13/2012 10:57:23 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: dead
Extracting more oil wouldn’t bring down gas prices, no matter how much Limbaugh and his friends want it to

This man displays a stunning ignorance of the simplest principle in economics - the law of supply and demand.


Nah, I used to be a "Drill, Baby, Drill!" kinda guy myself, but if it's all going on the global market, what's in it for us? If we drill all-out, the price will come down and the producers will reduce production since the price is dropping. And how much WILL the price come down, if we're increasing supply by what? 5 percent? 10 percent? The big shale gas boom is already slowing because of dropping natural gas prices.

Don't forget the other simple principle in economics...price equilibrium. Although I wish it were, it's probably not at 25 cents/gallon.
69 posted on 03/13/2012 11:07:16 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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