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one case in which you might want to point your own skeptical eye at some of the knee-jerk

responses you hear made to world geopolitical events.

And for oil is up next on Skeptoid.

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Blood for oil.

The war on terror and anti-American sentiment in the Middle East has raised our gasoline

prices to an all-time high, or has it?

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