Do you even know what hyperbole is?
A type of graph? :awe:
I just see it as hyperbole, he hypes up the gas prices. Its fine. He IS onto something after all, since prices have been on an upward trend for awhile with no stop in sight. The reason I think is wrong though but I'm not gonna argue with him about it.
I have my own reason I think its going up in price and people in finance might have a different reason and the people who drill it would have yet more reasons why they think its going up etc.
You could see it as Corporate America exploiting peoples reliance on gas like dave does.
You could see it as inflation from the fed.
You could see it as too much demand for oil from the developing world.
You could see it as declining economic competitiveness of the US.
etc. etc. etc.
Its really a mixture of all those reasons. I'm not sure how big of a factor corporate profits are in this but it IS part of the problem just not as much as dave hyperboles it.
Like BP has more revenue than the GDP of Greece, or Egypt, or Ireland, or New Zealand. If its revenue were its GDP it would be like the 30th largest country in the world or something like that. They're huge companies seeking profits for their share holders like any other company. Just super huge and powerful.