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Old 05-23-08, 02:33 PM   #9
Platapus
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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Skybird
For historic reference: oil price before the Iraq war: below 30 $US. highest oil price ever reached before 2003: around 36 $US.
More historical reference:

Price before Skybird came to this forum: Below $30 US. Price of oil when Skybird reached 10k posts, over $100. Think about it...
August, Good job of pointing out the ole Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc logic fallacy. Or as we analysts say in English: Correlation does not mean causality.

Here is another one for you

We have not had a terrorist attack in the United States since the TV program "24" has been on. I think AQ is afraid of Jack Bauer.
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