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Whatever the tipping point is, oil prices will stay below it. The oil exporters depend utterly on selling their oil. Those sales would plummet if the economy collapsed. That's the last thing they'd want.
Do you really think Obama's personal consumption of gasoline is responsible for the high oil prices?
Of course not, unlike the tens of millions of Bush-haters who spouted off for years about him, the evil Dick Cheney, and their "Big Oil buddies" conspiring to gouge the American people all in the name of rightwing greed.
But those same fools don't seem to mind that identical increases are happening with The Chosen One at the helm.
And HE DOES NOT CARE we have to pay the higher prices...."Get used to it" he says.
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