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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:33 PM Original message |
Oil slides below $99 - Markets relieved |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. So how many people do you think perished? |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Look for a body bag count, then assume that those body bags are being filled. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-08 08:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
38. 50,000? Are you saying that fifty thousand people |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
34. I think the OP meant that they are not allowing overflights of Galveston. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-08 08:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Of course they are. I've seen tons of pictures on a weather |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. There's only so long they can hide the devastation.. At some point there will be power |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Here's a report from a Houston DUer |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Seems "babylonsister" never really lost power if that person posted this afternoon |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. They did this a couple of years ago...lower the prices just before election |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. That's weird |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Good point! |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
31. It's called "hoarding", before and during a crises. The emergency oil reserves had been tapped into |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. So who's hoarding crude? n/t |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
35. Without electricity I don't think they can process it anyway. |
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NeoConsSuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. And like clockwork: Nigeria rebels declare 'oil war' |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. The local newscasts look like it SUCKS to be there |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. The more Bush negotiates with Iran and Libya the lower the price of oil drops |
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safeinOhio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. Why has the price of oil to diesel dropped so fast? |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. The price of diesel fluxuates seasonally. |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. Read the NEWS people--Ike affected 30% of oil production. |
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Oskie (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Oil slide before Nov./ Bush trying to get Bin Laden before Nov. |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. ding ding ding ding ding !!! |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. The Oil's God Fathers want their guy elected |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
15. What's with the special session? |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. OK, when are the fucking prices coming down??????? |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. When the whorehouse runs a Columbus Day sale. n/t |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. That's my question. Some stations are charging as much as $4.25 in NW Ohio. |
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Nambe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. Oil Falls to Six-Month Low as Refineries Escape Major Damage |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Meanwhile, gas prices above $4.00/gal |
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YDogg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. and bunches of stations near me (central FL) are out of gas. |
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RantinRavin (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Only because dumbasses went out panic buying |
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YDogg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 06:07 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. agreed |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 08:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. And you are correct sir or madam |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Sometimes I think they are playing a game on us... |
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54anickel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. This is the 2nd time the NYMEX opened early to allow speculators to protect their positions. WTF! |
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bloomington-lib (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. Prices drop.....yeah |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
28. Why are the media hiding the damage and the bodies? Maybe you should go out and MAKE the news you |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. Markets relieved |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
33. People are driving much less, they've run out of storage tanks to put it in like |
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