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<blockquote data-quote="71buickfreak" data-source="post: 1451523" data-attributes="member: 8373"><p>All you have to do is look at the facts- Katrina hitting the gulf combined with the war in Iraq gave the oil companies the excuse they had been looking for to jack up oil prices. Refining gasoline is quite cheap in reality, and diesel is a byproduct of oil refining in general, but I digress.</p><p></p><p>Fule prices skyrocketed overnight, tripling everyone's fuel costs, it hit everyone, rich or poor. People couldn't afford to drive to work, much less take a trip out of town. The economy instantly began to suffer. People were spending money on fuel to get to work, they couldn't buy the other stuff they used to. Diesel prices started effecting delivery. In order to get the goods to the market, your shipping went up, so the prices went up. Not only did you gas bill triple, but your food costs went up. Jobs started getting cut because nobody was buying. Then people started losing their houses that they could barely afford in the first place because of Clinton's housing lending policies. The loans became toxic at a rate the market could not absorb. The housing bubble would have eventually burst anyway, but it probably would not have happened the way it did if the oil companies hadn't started gouging the American public. </p><p></p><p>Laughable? I don't think so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="71buickfreak, post: 1451523, member: 8373"] All you have to do is look at the facts- Katrina hitting the gulf combined with the war in Iraq gave the oil companies the excuse they had been looking for to jack up oil prices. Refining gasoline is quite cheap in reality, and diesel is a byproduct of oil refining in general, but I digress. Fule prices skyrocketed overnight, tripling everyone's fuel costs, it hit everyone, rich or poor. People couldn't afford to drive to work, much less take a trip out of town. The economy instantly began to suffer. People were spending money on fuel to get to work, they couldn't buy the other stuff they used to. Diesel prices started effecting delivery. In order to get the goods to the market, your shipping went up, so the prices went up. Not only did you gas bill triple, but your food costs went up. Jobs started getting cut because nobody was buying. Then people started losing their houses that they could barely afford in the first place because of Clinton's housing lending policies. The loans became toxic at a rate the market could not absorb. The housing bubble would have eventually burst anyway, but it probably would not have happened the way it did if the oil companies hadn't started gouging the American public. Laughable? I don't think so. [/QUOTE]
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