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   From: none@none.com   
      
   "abelard"  wrote in message   
   news:53g22213a5rm4gs15q87gr3lb9isb80i07@4ax.com...   
   > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:41:46 +1000, "TheMan"    
   >   
   >   typed:   
   > >   
   > >"abelard"  wrote in message   
   > >news:ebc122d7cvbb42sm9jnec5ljld0885nno7@4ax.com...   
   > >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:34:40 -0000, "oO"    
   > >>   
   > >>   typed:   
   > >>   
   > >> >Not so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a   
   > >litre   
   > >> >in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's   
   > >ticker   
   > >> >go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil   
   > >> >companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a   
   > >piddly   
   > >> >$34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words,   
   > >it's   
   > >> >been a good war for Big Oil.   
   > >>   
   > >> and what is your preferred price at the pump....   
   > >> and why...   
   > >   
   > >Market Price you fucking Commie.   
   >   
   > ah, you mean a price which includes all externalised costs...   
   > seems reasonable....i take it you intend to include rising seas, increased   
   >     malaria, 100s of thousands of deaths from pollution, changed crop   
   >     viability, the largest number of species wiped out for 65 million   
   >      years, increased violent weather damage......   
   >   
   > seems reasonable to me...   
      
   Ahh okay... so REDUCING the price of Oil will stop these from happening will   
   it?   
      
   You should learn a think about economics. The higher the price, the lower   
   the demand. High Oil prices are an environmentalists dream come true.   
      
   -TheMan-   
      
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