[lbo-talk] The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff

[Jordan Hayes]

>> Actually, all participants can be winners during the
>> artificial buildup of prices. You sell to me for 100;
>> I sell back to you for 105 & then buy it back at 110.
>
> Not consumers, who buy gasoline at $4.00 a gallon and then burn it all 
> up driving to work, and 1500 s.f. houses on an eighth-acre for 
> $200,000 that they intend to live in rather than resell at $250,000.

But see the bottom of
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2007/2007-December/023868.html
for a (partial) way out.

/jordan