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$100 a barrel?

May 12, 2006 2:57AM PDT

There's breaking news of a big explosion in the Nigerian oil pipeline system.

Dan

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(NT) (NT) Gouging!!!!!
May 12, 2006 3:01AM PDT
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More reason to drill Anwar...
May 12, 2006 5:04AM PDT

too bad we haven't been all this time.

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(NT) (NT) and off the florida coast
May 12, 2006 5:52AM PDT
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I hear
May 12, 2006 7:29AM PDT

there is 40 gazillion barrels under Arlington Cemetery. Need hand moving statue.
Why drill in anwr? just nuke it. Think of all those caribou burgers.
I hate flipper and that french frogman.

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$100
May 12, 2006 5:17AM PDT

I know we import a lot of oil, but what is the domestic output? If it costs Exxon-Mobile $20 a barrel to get it out of the ground do you think they aren't going to sell it for $100 on the open market, probably to one of their subsidieries, and then buy it back?