Comments on: More Evidence of Pre-Olympic Stockpiling Contributing to the Oil Price Spike http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/more-evidence-of-pre-olympic.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:08:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mxq http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/more-evidence-of-pre-olympic.html#comment-14753 mxq Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:38:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/more-evidence-of-pre-olympic-stockpiling-contributing-to-the-oil-price-spike/#comment-14753 This is the fleeting demand that everyone and their in-house oil analyst were extrapolating into perpetuity.<br/><br/>Amazing how humans love to extrapolate the fat tails when they show up, but ignore them once they're gone.<br/><br/>Meet the new bubble, same as the old bubble. This is the fleeting demand that everyone and their in-house oil analyst were extrapolating into perpetuity.

Amazing how humans love to extrapolate the fat tails when they show up, but ignore them once they’re gone.

Meet the new bubble, same as the old bubble.

]]> By: AlexanderCampbell http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/more-evidence-of-pre-olympic.html#comment-14750 AlexanderCampbell Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/more-evidence-of-pre-olympic-stockpiling-contributing-to-the-oil-price-spike/#comment-14750 Why on earth was China stockpiling so much fuel before the Olympics? The Games themselves can't have required that much fuel, even if the government was planning to be able to keep them running in the event of a complete shutdown of supply. Why on earth was China stockpiling so much fuel before the Olympics? The Games themselves can’t have required that much fuel, even if the government was planning to be able to keep them running in the event of a complete shutdown of supply.

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