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To: DesertRhino
Really? Here's the current prices as of 10:00 EDT AM today:

CommodityPriceChange% Change
WTI Crude94.37-0.44-0.46%
Brent Crude100.0-0.03-0.03%
Murban Crude97.92+1.26+1.30%
Natural Gas2.824+0.055+1.99%

5 posted on 05/08/2026 7:33:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Conservatives can't afford to sit out. Vote like your freedom depends on it, it does!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I haven’t done any research on oil production, but I’m pretty sure producers are rising to the challenge, there’s too much money to be made so the hole left by the closure of the straight of Straight of Hormuz will be filled soon.


9 posted on 05/08/2026 7:39:22 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking.......... )
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To: Alas Babylon!

On this day in 2012, WTI Crude was $106.17 - $12 higher than today. Obama was re-elected and the Democrats actually GAINED 8 seats in the House.


34 posted on 05/08/2026 9:44:44 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Alas Babylon!

Cool story... but it hasn’t dropped at the pumps. He has manipulated and insider traded oil prices and futures 6 or 7 times in this war.

But pump prices are up and have not dropped since this Israeli war.

I filled up yesterday and paid about an extra 2 dollars a gallon from January. I called it paying my 60 dollar Israeli tax.


39 posted on 05/08/2026 11:00:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m on pins and needles wondering how next week will look in the oil markets. It seems to me Trump wants this war ended badly even at the expense of losing control over the strait. If Iran is able to take over with their shake down scheme, I wonder what the war was all about?


45 posted on 05/08/2026 11:59:20 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Alas Babylon!

in this case when can the raping start? i’d like to watch


47 posted on 05/08/2026 12:12:23 PM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: Alas Babylon!

It will take about a week for the lower prices to kick in the y rise fast and fall slow.


49 posted on 05/08/2026 1:44:20 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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