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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hmmmmm.

They’ve been blaming commodities speculators for excessively high crude prices.

Is this necessarily a bad thing?


3 posted on 09/16/2008 7:49:53 AM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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To: null and void

Might even help put the metal thieves out of work :)


5 posted on 09/16/2008 7:53:53 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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Not really. I suspect commodity speculation is the last card many financial institution have used to stay afloat. Now some big ones are gone. Everybody entangled with them via derivatives has to cover themselves by raising cash.

Consumers could have a breather. For now.

7 posted on 09/16/2008 7:55:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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Chinese and Indian buyers have already cancelled around 800,000 tons of palm oil imports

SEND IT HERE! Biodiesel!!!!!............

12 posted on 09/16/2008 8:04:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you're not part of the solution, then you must be part of the government............)
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