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Fix The Market

Jun 16, 2009 3:16 am | Categories: ar index, commoditites
Posted by pf_flyer
AR Index     537.85  -29.74  (-5.24%) Stocks of individual interest Toyota  76.67  -3.18 GM        1.26    +0.05 Ford      5.93    -0.45 Dow 8612.13  -152.36   (-1.74%) One factor affecting the AR Index that's really starting to bug me is the run up in prices at the pump. The average price at the pump has increased every day since April 29 and for no apparent reason other than speculation on the commodity markets. No actual supply or demand issues that would warrant the increase...

Patiently Waiting

Oct 27, 2008 5:13 am | Categories: commoditites, oil imports
Posted by pf_flyer
History lesson for the day. The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859. For this was one of the first successful oil wells that was drilled for the sole purpose of finding oil...
There's a lot of speculation and discussion about ethanol and how it's going to save us going around these days. Myself, I'm a bit of a skeptic and feel that turning all of U.S. corn production into ethanol wouldn't even make a dent in our fossil fuel needs, and that we'd starve ourselves in the process...


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