Grand Illusion - Gas prices are NOT going up

Gas is not really necessary with free energy.

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to mrnicespace......well gold and silver must be one hell of an "illusion".....it has been of value to humans for over 3000 years. In fact so valuable that people have tortured, killed, stolen, lied, cheated, faught wars, sold their bodies, murdered their husbands, wives, grand parents and children to get it. Yeah.....thats one hell of an illusion

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Yes. Many people have done many bad things for many illusions.

to thomaswadefraser: Gold & silver has been currency for over 3000 years and has never become worthless.....unlike the paper money from every fallen government in world history. So are you saying that any paper money that mankind has assigned value to will "always be worth something"......even if the government and country fall? Gold coins from the fallen Roman Empire are still worth money even thought the empire fell 1000 years ago (date approximate)

Stones were used before that, and they were fought and killed for. And yet stones have almost no value.

Humans GIVE value to things, such as we value food, gold, towels, because they are useful to us. We value money because we are taught to as we grow, unfortunetly due to horrible bankers and trading, people tend to get confused and not trust their money anymore.

Gold prices do fluctuate too, though admittedly not as much.

So if you are to blame Bush/Cheney for destroying the dollar (and I have my own short list of stupid/destructive things Bush has done), what do you say of Obama/Bernanke doubling the money supply in the past year?

The damage they have put into action has not hit yet and will probably make what happened under bush/cheney look minor.

to yank your hair: if you really want to follow this back....President Nixon put the final nail in the coffin on the American dollar. Before Nixon all debts we owed to foreign countries were paid in "gold" ....he stopped that and started the "paying our debts with paper dollars" instead.....and guess what? We started printing more and more paper to pay these debts (what a surprise, NOT)

The money supply and gas prices have both about doubled since 2000. Why haven't peoples wages doubled too!!?

No, you see the metals only have the value we asign to them. The currancy of out money would fluctuate even if it was metal.

This is why it still fluctuate just as much back when it was silver.