Don't think locking gas caps prevents people from stealing gas. It's so easy to break that shit.

Fuck Bush for causing this whole gas price shit. FUCK YOU BUSH!

Last I checked..it was a demand and refining thing, complicated by the futures market overreacting to many things.

But..Bush?

One would expect you can put more than 20-30 words around your theory on this.

Personality traits inform others.

Postscript: don't forget the alleged coup attempt against Venezuela.

Or the Somali piracy due to the junta supported by Bush.

The list goes on and on and on...

No.

Has it been..threatened?

No.

Have speculators played up simple fear?

Yes.

Bush has nothing to do with this, demand does, thats you, me, and a few billion others that use more, and more and more at a rate higher than total possible production into the future.

Not Bush's fault, open up the door, let in a little light. The US does not have control of the price of oil anymore.

Bush's policies are costing us relevance, but are not affecting the explosive growth in the third world for _oil_.

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Bush has created the geopolitical instability which speculators are now exploiting, at our expense. There was zero rational reason for Bush to do this.

Rising demand in China and India is also a major factor.

A third consideration is that Bush has shattered confidence in the dollar, that plus his obnoxious foreign policy is driving countries to want to price oil in Euros or mixed basket of currencies.
If you think it's bad now, wait till oil isn't priced in dollars any more.

>Bush's policies are costing us relevance, but are not
>affecting the explosive growth in the third world for _oil_.

The predicate of your statement is incorrect, which is that rising developing-country demand is the only significant driver.

>The US does not have control of the price of oil anymore.

Agreed that the US does not have control of the price of crude; this is a pivotal event in the eclipsing of US power.
Stopping pricing oil solely in USD will be another pivotal event.
Resource wars in the ME Central Asia will be another event.

However as to the price of refined gasoline within the US, Bush has allowed anticompetitive mergers. So, that component is definitely his responsibility.

Personality traits inform others.

A gentle screwdriver application solved that in a couple seconds.

Does anyone still have locking gas caps?

I know that locking gas cap doors are almost universal, but I didn't know people still use locking gas caps.

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you wish to see

Sigh. You are missing the point.

Finch.

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Oh, ok. Well in that case perhaps you would like to lecture us on how there aren't tape decks in new cars anymore, or point out all the other obvious and mundane crap you can think of. That's SO much more interesting. Heaven forbid that you just not comment at all when you have nothing to say.

Finch.

Once a month you get on some chemical imbalance and dive bomb me out of the blue, then disappear for a while. And it's usually to make some personal observation which, I could point out, is off topic itself.

The pitiful part is not as much that you do it,but that sore loser followers like royal jim have to exploit the opportunity to pile on in the worst display of pointless neener neenerism I've seen in a while.

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you wish to see

Made your own reality hey? Oralio why are you straying from the discussion and not sticking with the topic? HUH??? Quit leading us down the yellow brick road..

Of course I'm not saying it doesn't happen.

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