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The decline in oil prices is proof that the Obama economy is in a depression and is having a devastating impact on the oil industry.

If the price of oil continues to crash, the very little drilling in the US that remains will be shut down and our oil companies and oilfield workers will suffer.

1 posted on 06/25/2012 12:56:57 AM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Uncle Slayton

BS... the factories I work with here in the US are so busy they can’t keep up with demand. Businesses are starting to spend money... they want the product and they want it now. Methinks it’s because they know Obama is toast.


2 posted on 06/25/2012 1:02:13 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

The oil market was another bubble that popped. Supply exceeds demand and the price drops.


6 posted on 06/25/2012 2:36:19 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: Uncle Slayton
I thought I saw on another thread that Obama cut a quiet deal with the Saudis to increase output, thus forcing down oil futures.

The Marxist knows he had no chance of winning with $4.00 a gallon gas.

7 posted on 06/25/2012 2:39:31 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Uncle Slayton; carriage_hill

the price will continue to drop until Nov 6 .. people need to get a clue


9 posted on 06/25/2012 2:47:27 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: Uncle Slayton
Global oil prices are listed in U.S. dollars, so they are heavily influenced by changes in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies.

I suspect these declining prices can be tied to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar in recent months as Europe is facing a disastrous collapse.

13 posted on 06/25/2012 3:44:32 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Uncle Slayton

I recall Zer0 threatening to tap the SOR. Did he do it?


15 posted on 06/25/2012 4:05:56 AM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: Uncle Slayton

The volatility of the Middle East just went up another notch or two when the new leader of Egypt announced the capital will eventually be Jerusalem. Looks like deja vu all over gain.


19 posted on 06/25/2012 4:38:16 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Uncle Slayton

I believe the Saudis have owned our presidents since the first Bush. Someone is sponsoring all the muslims moving here and buying franchises that most Americans can’t afford. And us buying their oil instead of drilling for our own is how they pay for it. Saying you want to drill and not drilling brings zero barrels of oil out of the ground.


20 posted on 06/25/2012 4:41:26 AM PDT by Terry Mross (To My Liberal Kinfolk: Don't call, email or write until you've gotten your brain fixed.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

I caught some newsie commentator a few weeks ago say that the decline in oil/gas prices was due to the declining (world) economy.

That doesn’t make since. It was NOT a roaring economy that sent the gas prices over $3 and nearing $4 due to demand.

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Gas prices started falling when, supposedly, there was talk of Obama going to release oil from the Strategic Reserve. [Did he, or was it just pre-election rhetoric?]
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Something else is behind this recent decline.

One article a couple of weeks ago said that Obama had made a deal with the Saudi’s to reduce oil prices until after the election.

That sounds more likely.


21 posted on 06/25/2012 4:58:16 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Uncle Slayton

My wife works in a factory. She had mandatory overtime everyday last week, one day was 12 hours.

They’re backing off a bit this week, but it’s mandatory overtime today.


24 posted on 06/25/2012 5:19:34 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Whatever the reason for the decline, you can be sure that Obama will take credit for it in the campaign.

And you can count on any economic numbers that the government produces to look increasingly rosy as we approach November.

The only way Obomba can win is to lie every time he opens his mouth. Of course, that’s the one thing Obomba is really good at.


27 posted on 06/25/2012 5:27:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Oil prices are falling because, despite the fact that people have free time thanks to the 0bamunists ecnomics making them unemployed, they can’t afford to go anywhere, so demand has dropped.


33 posted on 06/25/2012 6:41:38 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (An Appeal to Heaven)
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Oil Prices are a joke, worldwide we are using less oil per day than we were a decade ago, but the price keeps going up, well beyond the rate of inflation.

Its a speculator driven market, has nothing to do with demand and supply anymore.


39 posted on 06/25/2012 7:04:13 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Uncle Slayton

The fall in oil prises is for the November election. They will rise right after it is over.


41 posted on 06/25/2012 7:17:26 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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To: Uncle Slayton

People who think that Obama has some secret power to intentionally control gas prices are exactly as goofy as the people who thought Bush had that power.


50 posted on 06/25/2012 11:00:09 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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