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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:02 AM Original message |
Oil Industry Braces for Drop in U.S. Thirst for Gasoline |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. Congratulations oil companies! You priced yourself out of demand. |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. +1 |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 01:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Investigations? Unfortunately, this administration wants to look to the future, not the past. |
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4_TN_TITANS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 10:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Priced themselves out of demand by |
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Sinistrous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. Looks like it is time to close a few more refineries, so |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yep. Don't think that this means that gas prices are going lower or flatlining. |
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No More Bushbots (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. That would be an incorrect assumption |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Sure. Just like they did "not hesitate" to protect our Treasury from being looted... |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. well to be fair |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. To really be fair |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
5. Didn't Exxon just post record profits? |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Indeed they did. n/t |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. Oh, I think this calls for one of these. |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. Drill baby drill! |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. i.e. With the prices were going to charge, consumption will |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. They have been gouging us for the last six months haven't they? |
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azul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh dandy, the narrative from EXon and the Lizard of Oz's WSJ |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. Exactly what the Greedy oil companies need.. |
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IrishBuckeye (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. Unfortunately India and China will more than makeup for any decrease from the U.S. /nm |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-13-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. It NEVER fails impress how parochial Americans are about petrol prices |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. "China record car sales beat US for third month: state media" |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
20. Ding ding ding...they hit the nail on the head here. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. If global oil supplies begin to fall, then there is the potential for gas prices to shoot back up |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. Breaking: US Oil Industry Expects Americans to be Poorer by 2030. |
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SKKY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got that impression from the article... |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
25. Profits not obscene enough this year? |
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