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Related: About this forumTrump prediction in 2012: Gasoline is going to hit five dollars, six dollars.
Trump in 2012
We are in a very fragile period of time. Oil is going through the roof. Gasoline is going to hit five dollars, six dollars who knows what its going to hit. Theres nobody representing us, and certainly nobody representing us well with respect to the OPEC nations, so theyre laughing all the way to the bank."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-economy-taxes-obama/2012/02/22/id/430235/#ixzz4GPJgDDfT
Here's what happened:
http://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=f&Period=48&Areas=USA%20Average%2C%2C&Unit=US%20%24%2FG
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Trump prediction in 2012: Gasoline is going to hit five dollars, six dollars. (Original Post)
Doodley
Aug 2016
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The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)1. It's always impending doom that trump can save us from.
onenote
(42,782 posts)2. To be fair (not that Trump deserves any such thing), so did a bunch of DUers
Doodley
(9,151 posts)5. Maybe, but were DUers blaming Obama for something that MIGHT happen and using
bad predictions to whip up fear and anger?
Response to Doodley (Original post)
wishstar This message was self-deleted by its author.
Vanilla Warcraft
(25 posts)4. trump prediciton
frazzled
(18,402 posts)6. Oil is at $41.83 per barrel today
How is that "going through the roof?" In June 2008, when Bush was president, it was more than $151 per barrel.
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<a href='http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart'>Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart</a>
<a href='http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart'>Macrotrends</a>