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Will the US Government impose price controls on the cost of gasoline in 2008?
Current forecast: 8% chance 
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The price of a barrel of light sweet crude oil in May topped $135 (a price that's doubled since last May and quadrupled since May 2002). Will the US Government impose price controls on the retail cost of gasoline in 2008?
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Created Sun 1st Jun 5:25pm PDT by lola
lola
Suspend date: Wed 31st Dec 11:59pm PST (4 weeks to go)
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score: 10
Wall Street Journal Online 1 week ago
Crude-oil prices sank below $50 a barrel, and the nation's average price for gasoline hovered just above $2 a gallon, as the free fall in energy prices reverberated through the economy. The sudden reversal -- the fastest and sharpest since 1980, when
score: 10
Boston Globe 1 week ago
Regular unleaded gasoline sells for $1.46.9 per gallon at a Quik Trip store in Independence, Mo. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. Wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October as energy prices
score: 10
ABC News 1 week ago
Oil slipped below $54 a barrel Wednesday as stock markets across the globe fell and yet another U.S. government report illustrated the disarray in the housing market. U.S. motorists
score: 10
Washington Post 1 week ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Oil slipped below $54 a barrel Wednesday as stock markets across the globe fell and yet another U.S. government report illustrated the disarray in the housing market. U.S. motorists
score: 10
Washington Post 1 week ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Oil slipped below $54 a barrel Wednesday as stock markets across the globe fell and yet another U.S. government report illustrated the disarray in the housing market. U.S. motorists
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price control = carter
carter = gross
law of substitution says,
price control = gross
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