<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:08 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">>…</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Jimmy Carter (according to my dentist this morning) caused the high gas prices of the 70s.  Accordingly, Obama must be responsible for the lowered prices.  QED.</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">  </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">BillW, if your dentist was smart enough to make it into and through dental school, she is smart enough to realize American presidents do not dictate gas prices.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Explain to her that low gas prices are being caused by fracking with little influence from Obama, and that Jimmy Carter caused Ronald Reagan.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The current depression of oil prices is due in part to the fact that OPEC refuses to lower production. While they MIGHT be doing this for their own reasons, it is also POSSIBLE that they are doing so because the Obama administration wishes to put extreme pressure on Russia. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So while one could debate Carter's influence on the oil prices in 1979, one can also rationally debate Obama's influence now.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Kelly</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>