Re: Question for old timers

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:32:34 -0400, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <4811e3ec.132545510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
john_kulp@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Kulp) wrote:


About 25 cents a gallon as I remember. But that is controlled by a
cartel and bears no relation to inflation. Rather, it is a major
contributor to it.

Not really. Actually only within the last 6 months or has oil gone up
to what it would have been had it been inflating along with the rest of
the economy. Through most of the last couple of decades, it has been
disinflationary if anything.

True, but I meant now not in the past.
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