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To: stockman_scott who wrote (40044)	3/22/2004 10:53:41 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

every $1 in crude price hits USEcon by $1.7 billion which becomes a clear "tax" drag on the economy but most Americans remain clueless as to why it is a powerful combination of Chinese demand increase and a falling USDollar most Americans, pre-occupied by studio wrestling, eating french fries, watching vacant sitcoms, and shopping with credit cards to purchase unneeded items, are clueless as to what is going on in a CNBC poll this morning, 80% thought the higher energy prices are a result of manipulation when you have no idea what is going on, blame it on that shadowy faceless mysterious entity MANIPULATION gasoline is still cheap by 1980 standards home heating bills (by gas) are not cheap but psychologically, $2 stops me from making that extra trip to a store, a theatre, a friend's house, or wherever / jim