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To: bentway who wrote (107331)	2/29/2008 1:56:42 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

totally agree, I am not against gold or oil or any other commodity investing. But Golds value is mostly related to the gold standard and its historical legacy. Let me ask you this- please be honest. You use oil every day. Can you imagine a day (tomorrow, this week or this year) where you and the rest of the public could not access oil- what would that do to the economy or people's lives? Coal same deal, etc. now what about gold. Lets say tomorrow there was a huge GOLD EMBARGO and you were disallowed from using gold in your own life, in your commercial life etc. What would be the effect? I'll tell you what it would be .... not much. The few (very few) tech companies still using gold in semiconductor processing would switch to another material... there would be a small disruption. thats IT.