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To: bentway who wrote (123556)	5/16/2008 2:06:15 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Respond to of 306849

If oil went down, SUV sales would go back up.

To: bentway who wrote (123556)	5/16/2008 2:25:12 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

mass unemployment would force changes in human settlement patterns that might affect future oil consumption. on the other hand, it might mean more flooding over the borders to become American energy hogs.

To: bentway who wrote (123556)	5/16/2008 4:30:12 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I agree and have said so for some time now. Recessions are a necessary part of the economy, they burn away the unproductive economic underbrush. If you suppress little brush fires (as Soylent Greenspan and Bernanke have done), things grow unchecked until you get a conflageration you can't control. Energy, food, infrastructure, finance are all but facets of this. The business cycle will return with a vengence, and probably when it's least advantageous to the U.S.