You (and I) wish!

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NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - Oil prices slumped below $50 on Tuesday amid concerns over rising crude inventories in the United States, the world's largest energy consumer, and a softening Western economy.

U.S. light crude settled down $1.42, or nearly 3 percent, to $49.50 a barrel, eclipsing a gain of $1.20 on Monday.

Prices are 15 percent below the record high $58.28 struck April 4.

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WHERE IS THE SAME "DECREASE " IN PRICES WHEN THE PRICE OF A BARREL GOES DOWN ???

We IMMEDIATLY see, at ANY RISE in the price of a barrel of oil, almost "INSTANTEOUSLY", an INCREASE in the gas prices at the pumps.

Let's see what the NEW RECORD IN QUARTERLY PROFITS are in the next quarter, for the OIL Companies !!

What a ****ing "perfectly legal" SCAM on a economic, trend setting commodity, that has such a DRASTIC effect on ALL other ECONOMIC PRICES !!!

Even if the gas prices did drop, by some "miracle", we'd NEVER see any other prices drop.

Anyone remember the 1st sugar shortage back in the early 70's. That, to me, seemed when the entire TREND started. ONCE A PRICE WENT UP, THEY NEVER, EVER, CAME BACK DOWN . After that, we had the gas crunch, coffee shortage, orange shortage, etc. All prices started going UP, and UP, and they all started STAYING there.