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Old 07-14-08, 08:23 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Can anyone who says this please post up some data that verifies it? Oil is up 50% this year alone, from Jan to now. How much has the dollar declined in the same period?
Not quite that dramatic, but the dollar vs euro has the dollar sliding considerably over the past few years, most of it over the last year and change

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Can anyone who says this please post up some data that verifies it? Oil is up 50% this year alone, from Jan to now. How much has the dollar declined in the same period?
This graph inidcates that if oil was traded in Euro's it would be $80 a barrel right now.
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Not quite that dramatic, but the dollar vs euro has the dollar sliding considerably over the past few years, most of it over the last year and change

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So a 10% decline in the dollar is responsible for a 50% increase in oil? (Jan to July '08). Why hasn't every other import that trades in $'s gone up 50% then in the last 6 months? This implied cause/effect curve (which I doubt exists to the extent of the recent run-ups we've seen) seems to have dramatically changed it's slope in the last 6 months then, compared to the last several years... I call BS as a major impact on the last 6 month's change in oil price...

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I dont think anyone is saying the sliding USD is the only cause,but one of many

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So a 10% decline in the dollar is responsible for a 50% increase in oil? (Jan to July '08). Why hasn't every other import that trades in $'s gone up 50% then in the last 6 months? This implied cause/effect curve (which I doubt exists to the extent of the recent run-ups we've seen) seems to have dramatically changed it's slope in the last 6 months then, compared to the last several years... I call BS as a major impact on the last 6 month's change in oil price...
Like rosco said, it's not all of it, but part of it. Since beginning of '06, a 30% slode, since beginning of 04, almost 40% slide. In inflation/stagflation is a bitch. Not gonna be the direct cause, but is don't help much


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I dont think anyone is saying the sliding USD is the only cause,but one of many
I think people don't know, and "don't know" doesn't sell, so they'll throw all kinds of crap against the wall and see what sticks...

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What I don't like is the administration pushing the supply/demand argument to further their obvious self-interest, when clearly the accounting doesn't add up.

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So a 10% decline in the dollar is responsible for a 50% increase in oil? (Jan to July '08). Why hasn't every other import that trades in $'s gone up 50% then in the last 6 months? This implied cause/effect curve (which I doubt exists to the extent of the recent run-ups we've seen) seems to have dramatically changed it's slope in the last 6 months then, compared to the last several years... I call BS as a major impact on the last 6 month's change in oil price...

The strength of the dollar is just on piece of the puzzle. The last time that the dollar had parity with the euro was in 2001.

The part of the puzzle is the unreliable numbers on supply/demand.

The other part of the puzzle is the massive influx of investments in commodities (oil included) as a investment vehicle to hedge against the falling dollar and inflation in the US.

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I'm actually PRO "more drilling" not to lower prices now but to expand for the future. That said, there's not much point in granting MORE offshore drilling leases when the oil companies aren't yet tapping the 90 Million acres they already have.

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The con seems so clear, big oil and a sympathetic oil man in the White House use high gas/oil prices as a catalyst get the US to sell MORE oil rights to Big Oil even though they already have 90 million acres of leases they haven't even touched yet.

It's a shame so many citizens are blind to the long con. It's like someone setting you on fire so they can sell you a fire extinguisher.

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The con seems so clear, big oil and a sympathetic oil man in the White House use high gas/oil prices as a catalyst get the US to sell MORE oil rights to Big Oil even though they already have 90 million acres of leases they haven't even touched yet.

It's a shame so many citizens are blind to the long con. It's like someone setting you on fire so they can sell you a fire extinguisher.
It's interesting that Alaskan politicians haven't been talking drilling lately. Both Stevens and Murkowski have recently touted alternative energy development at both the state and federal level.

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Unfortunately we do ...

If you are an amoral or an immoral resouce company, then the TSE or the VSE is the stock exchange to be. Unlike the US where American companies can be held liable for their actions over seas, resource companies registered on the Canadian stock exchanges will see no punative action in Canada unless the dictator they are helping stay in power decided to punish them. Its one of the reasons little Canada is #2 in mining corps on its stock exchanges (was #1 until the UK beat them out last year).

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Can anyone who says this please post up some data that verifies it? Oil is up 50% this year alone, from Jan to now. How much has the dollar declined in the same period?
Do some reading dude, are you ones of those typical american who spend more time at the sport channel :

Oil prices plummet $7 on spreading economic fears - Yahoo! News

Again as I said, it's speculation and the fall of the dollars...

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Do some reading dude, are you ones of those typical american who spend more time at the sport channel :

Oil prices plummet $7 on spreading economic fears - Yahoo! News

Again as I said, it's speculation and the fall of the dollars...

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Do some reading dude, are you ones of those typical american who spend more time at the sport channel :

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Again as I said, it's speculation and the fall of the dollars...
I don't watch sports. (and I get my news from MUD). I pulled some EUR/$ and historical oil price data. Year over year shows some interesting trends. 2007, and up through April of '08 shows real good correlation of oil and the $ decline, but then in Apr the correlation shifts dramatically and is less correlated. Based on $ decline only, I estimate price should be around $115/bbl (using the '07-early'08 data). So, the other $30 is speculation? When it comes to oil, you can read too much, as most people don't seem to have any data to back up their whimsical, flip-flop, headline-of-the-day op/ed piece...

edit: - > and $6 isn't much of a "plummet" given the recent intra-day and day-to-day variation in the price of a bbl... "Plummet" these days in oil means that the previous day's high will be seen in a matter of hours (OK, maybe a day or two)

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I heard an interview a couple days ago with an oil speculator. He talked about how much liquidity and stability they added to the market and so forth. He did state that they (speculators) may increase the prices slightly, but only by $20 or so a barrel.

Sounded like a smooth politician to me.

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I heard an interview a couple days ago with an oil speculator. He talked about how much liquidity and stability they added to the market and so forth. He did state that they (speculators) may increase the prices slightly, but only by $20 or so a barrel.

Sounded like a smooth politician to me.
"slightly" = 15%??

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