Brokaw just said the $53 a barrel for the price of oil is costing average

[kentuck]

Americans about ten dollars per week and is taking $1 billion dollars out of the economy. He said perhaps they (the media) had not paid enough attention to this issue...

[bush equals idiot]

1. I don't think it's ever been higher in our history.

[0007]

4. Never and it will soon be at sixty a barrel.

You'll get up one morning and all the SUV's will be gone. And water will be more expensive than petrol.

The Hummers will be running around town with 50 cal. machines guns mounted on top, with loud speakers telling the folks that there is no work today or tomorrow.

[Leilani]

2. Duh!

Lots of things the media has not paid attention to.

Brokaw, with 20 minutes per nite...how can they cover anything in 20 minutes?

[gratuitous]

7. No kidding!

Golly Tom, so you haven't paid sufficient attention to rising gas prices? Now that you finally seem aware of it -- what, was your limo driver swearing too loud -- are you going to do something radical and actually report on it?

Toss "media failure to note rising gas prices" on the pile along with "general media gullibility" "media willingness to swallow bullshit and call it filet mignon" "media complicity in hyping politically driven terror alerts" and "media credulity in parroting every talking point on the daily RNC blast faxes" as betrayals of the public good by the mass media.

Overpriced, overpampered, blow-dried sacks of unmerited privilege. May you some day soon find out what it's like to work for a living.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. More than $10 per week if you consider pre-war prices to today

This is the example I used in another thread: On the day before the Iraq war, I intentionally memorized the price at my nearby station in Las Vegas. It was 1.29. Yesterday the same station was 2.11.

That is a 64% increase. If a car with a 15 gallon tank is filled once a week all year, that amounts to $640 more per year, for the identical product and amount. And that's one car only. A multi car family or anyone who drives more and fills up more frequently is harmed even more.

An insignificant yawn for Bush's limousined base, but a significant chunk of the ballyhoed tax cut for the vast majority of us. The remainder is more than wiped out when you throw in heating prices and health care costs and all the rest.

Frankly, to oust this moron I'll briefly tolerate $3 gas and an 9000 stock market if that's what it takes.

 

[zaj]

5. Ya think?

Oil prices have doubled in the year since Bush's failed post-war planning cause the Iraq to sprial into chaos.

This and the failures to cover electronic voting are two of the major, major misses by the major media.

[spanone]

6. Perhaps????

[Leilani]

8. And just wait till it gets cold!

Many people heat their homes with oil, & no one has mentioned that.

[Minimus]

9. yeah but we're turning the corner!

[durablend]

10. "perhaps they (the media) had not paid enough attention to this issue"

Gee, YA THINK?!?!?