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What's with the thousands of headlines saying Get Ready for $5 Gas?

What's with the thousands of headlines saying Get Ready for $5 Gas?

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limitgov Posted: Tue, Feb 14 2012 8:49 AM

Its like the media wants to make speculators of oil and gas to shoot the price up, up, up.

And scare everybody.  They've been saying get ready for $5 gas for months now.

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limitgov replied on Tue, Feb 14 2012 8:53 AM

And none of the articles EVER mention WHY gas prices will rise.  They always say speculators, speculators, speculators.  As if speculators magically increase the price of gas for no reason.

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No2statism replied on Tue, Feb 14 2012 10:06 AM

It will probably be well over $5 if the US wages war against Iran which seems likely.

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Bert replied on Tue, Feb 14 2012 11:28 AM

Something like "get ready for $5 gas this summer"  really means "get ready for the US military to cause a shit storm in the Middle East again by this summer."

 

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