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hadrons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:41 PM Original message |
US cut its consumption of gas by 50% it would'nt lower gas prices??? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not really - it would be the opposite really |
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End Of The Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't believe it would lower prices, no. But... |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Fair enough. Without manipulation, they would plunge extremely sharply. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. All the more reason to infer it's all about speculation and manipulation. |
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MercutioATC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. ...and how do we lower gas consumption by 50%? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
4. The US uses 24% of world production according to BP, so that |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Also, inelastic demand curves cut both ways. If demand plunges, prices do too. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Not really. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. Umm....That's total B.S. |
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hadrons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That's what I was thinking .... |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. No. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. and the falling dollar |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Which isn't helped by offshoring, not controlling trade (true fair trade), et cetera. |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Speculator ARE influenced by demand |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. It probably wouldn't, being that prices are artificially inflated and all anyway. |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yeah it would be like water conservation in my state. |
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BigDaddy44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. Of course it would |
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