Yes, welcome to the "savings" of the Wal-Mart economy. And, of course, we also bear the expense of keeping the middle east safe for transportation of oil to the entire world, including China. That's a freebie from Uncle Sam (plus our GPS system that allows them to navigate there and back with the stuff).
Jim
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, BStromsoe <bstromsoe@...> wrote:
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> ... or, all those $$ we have been sending to China via my credit card purchases
> of their goods are allowing them to bid for barrels of oil which in turn is
> driving up the cost of such scarce resources, thus allowing us to spend more $$
> to make Saudi princes (or Russian oligarks) happy so they can invest in our
> lousy real estate market, or buy our basketball teams, and force our WVO guys
> and gals to make more juice. I remember the shock waves when oil went from $25 /
> barrel to $29 / barrel - PS - when I was in Venezuela a couple of years ago, a
> gallon of petrol was only $0.25.
>
> brian from la verne, ca
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