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Incitatus

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4. It's not an unreasonable assumption.

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:51 PM

Sep 2012

If they want to drive up prices before the election, they could just buy oil futures for the preceding months and drive up the price. Or oil companies could turn the spigot down, maybe it's a little of both.

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What has precipitated the spike in gas prices today? [View all] Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 OP

Koch Roaches: my mansion is dirty! Buy me a clean one! Initech Sep 2012 #1

OK, forget the fucking Kochs Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #3

It's not an unreasonable assumption. Incitatus Sep 2012 #4

Oil derivatives. They're responsible for it. Initech Sep 2012 #5

Yes, I know Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #6

Republican setup oswaldactedalone Sep 2012 #2

Oil speculators. Ruby the Liberal Sep 2012 #7

I couldn't agree more Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #8

It is a ginormous roulette table Ruby the Liberal Sep 2012 #9

republican oil speculators DonRedwood Sep 2012 #10

Greed (and HFT) comes in all political stripes, friend. Ruby the Liberal Sep 2012 #13

the election. spanone Sep 2012 #11

Your situation seems pretty anomalous onenote Sep 2012 #12

The price rose uniformly at all stations in my area Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #15

Pretty strange. onenote Sep 2012 #16

Well, it is Ohio, after all Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #18

Corn futures. flying_wahini Sep 2012 #14

Obama's positive poll numbers. The Koch brothers in action! nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #17