IF W WERE AS MANIPULATIVE AS THE LEFT CLAIMS...:

Oil dips below $US100 (The Age, September 13, 2008)

Oil prices closed narrowly mixed on Friday amid a near-total shutdown of offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, where a massive Hurricane Ike was bearing down deep in the heart of the US oil industry. [...]

About an hour earlier, the New York contract briefly dipped to $US99.99, crossing the psychological $US100 threshold for the first time since April 1.

...he could salt this election away by releasing the strategic petroleum reserves and imploding the cost of gas.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 13, 2008 11:01 AM