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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Oil prices skyrocket...the speculators are back
Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's, Future joins Thom Hartmann. Demand for oil is at a 15 year low - but oil prices are still sky high. If demand isn't driving the price - then what is?
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Thom Hartmann: Oil prices skyrocket...the speculators are back (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Feb 2012
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dmallind
(10,437 posts)1. Is GLOBAL demand down or just US?
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)2. So, $5 gas just in time for the election?
What an amazing coincidence. Just like when gas dropped $1.50 a gallon in the fall of 2006...
Samantha
(9,314 posts)3. Kind of reminds me of what happened to Carter as he was preparing for his re-election campaign....
Another amazing coincidence, I imagine.
Sam
