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There's the Supply Curve, the Demand Curve, and the No Spin Zone Curve

Jesse Walker | 12.2.2005 10:12 AM

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Paying less for gas? Thank Bill O'Reilly!

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Jason Ligon   20 years ago

    Wait a minute. I thought he wanted to know who the one guy was who set the price of gas? How can he have all these well positioned insiders and not know who Mr. Oil Price is?

    What a tool.

  2. Jason Ligon   20 years ago

    The H&R Curve: I think oil execs should raise prices to wean the world from its dependence on fossil fuels.

    So, everyone, when oil goes back up, you know who to thank.

  3. Slainte'   20 years ago

    Okay, so backing up a few years...
    I guess this means Al Gore DID invent the internet.

  4. Hakluyt   20 years ago

    Ha ha ha.

  5. mtc   20 years ago

    Jason-

    The answer was inside him all along.
    Mr. Oil Price is him.

  6. Brian   20 years ago

    Truly a giant among men. He probably did that in his spare time while fighting the war against the War Against Christmas. If only they could harness his hot air to generate electricity.

    Gas is cheaper because we're still releasing oil from the SPR and we've been importing a lot of gas and heating oil from perfidious Europe. France especially (gasp!)

    This idea that some secret cabal sets energy prices allows the denial to go on a little longer.

  7. Warren   20 years ago

    Amazing. What's even better is the folks who hate Bill the most think exactly the same way.

  8. Gimme Back My Dog   20 years ago

    I think we should all be glad that Bill O'Reilly is protecting us from being ripped off.

    On an unrelated note, you can buy a No Spin Varsity Jacket from billoreilly.com for a hundred fifty bucks.

  9. Hakluyt   20 years ago

    O RLY?

  10. Mr. Nice Guy   20 years ago

    Since Bill solved the high gas-price thing, I wonder if he could do something about the filthy water in those squeegee buckets at the self-serve pumps.

  11. Jason O.   20 years ago

    O'Reilly is intentionally and unintentionally hilarious.

    I want to see him and Chris Matthews across a table for 30 minutes and the winner is the one who has not lost his voice.

  12. MP   20 years ago

    O RLY?

    lol. I can't believe that owl infected you. I didn't realize it was contagious.

  13. Rich Ard   20 years ago

    I want to see him and Chris Matthews across a table for 30 minutes and the winner is the one who has not lost his voice.

    Yeah, but then everyone else still loses.

  14. greg wirth   20 years ago

    Personally, I think he's insane. He can't really believe the things that come out of his mouth.

  15. Number 6   20 years ago

    Greg-Of course he doesn't. None of his ilk do. Say it with me: demagoguery for profit.

  16. smalls   20 years ago

    The problem is, I'm forced to watch this guy because the evil cable and satellite companies give me Fox News bundled with everything else. I wish there was something we could about that.

  17. Warren   20 years ago

    smalls
    HAHAHAHA good one

  18. Hakluyt   20 years ago

    MP,

    Well, O'Reilly and O RLY seem meant for each other.

  19. keith   20 years ago

    So he went looking for the number one man who sets oil prices, and found out that HE was number one all along. How very Prisoner of him.

    Greg--
    He'd be crazy if he DID believe everything he says. That he doesn't makes him, like most others in his league (Coulter, etc) less crazy, and more just opportunistic and crafty. They knw what will get them attention and make them money, and they say it.

    Personally, I find the O'Reilly Factor to be just as funny as the Daily Show. The Colbert Report is uneccesary, because O'Reilly is already a satire of himself. And I always like to go back to my favorite example: who else, itwo9/11 (so tired of typing "in the wake of"), had the courage to sit in front of a national audience and threaten to beat up a kid who's dad had died in the WTC attack?

    -K

  20. mark   20 years ago

    Since Bill solved the high gas-price thing, I wonder if he could do something about the filthy water in those squeegee buckets at the self-serve pumps.

    I hear he has a loofah that is absolute magic...

    Isn't his 15 minutes up yet?

  21. Wintermute   20 years ago

    Oh, hell, let him try to take credit for his jawboning. Better than his other rants.

  22. thoreau   20 years ago

    Remember when Trump said that he could negotiate a better gasoline price? Maybe he and O'Reilly should team up.

  23. Viking "mehair mama" Moose   20 years ago

    "O RLY "

    hahahahahahah!

    brilliant!

    you da man!

    pigskin bus to tuna town!

    noam chomsky blow up dolls for everyone!!!!!

  24. Steven Crane   20 years ago

    It's been done, GG.

    No stealing my schtick. If anyone here is going to do any owl-ing, it's me.

    srsly.

    😀

  25. SM   20 years ago

    Let's not forget that he also claims to have brought down the french economy singlehandedly.

  26. mediageek   20 years ago

    O RLY?

    Comment by: Hakluyt at December 2, 2005 10:46 AM

    Never could I have thought that four letters and a question mark would throw me into a hysterical fit of laughing.

    *golf clap*

  27. Rich Ard   20 years ago

    The answer was inside him all along.

    Then let me be the first to propose that we open him up and see what else is in there.

  28. Jon H   20 years ago

    Rich ard writes: "Yeah, but then everyone else still loses."

    Ah, but if Matthews and O'Reilly are in a sealed, air-tight room for the argument, then, well, everyone else wins!

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