Pat Robertson, January 2008:

“he said oil would reach $150 a barrel – the price hit $100 on Wednesday – with the dollar continuing to lose value in 2008.”

Reality, October 2008:

“Crude has now fallen about 40% since surging to an all-time record $147.27 a barrel on July 11.”

So close, Pat! Despite the fact that your “prophecies” are for the most part relatively safe bets that any pundit/meteorologist could predict, they have once again failed to materialize. And that was back in October: Oil prices per barrel are less than a third of their high now, not to mention the dollar is doing great compared to both the battered Euro and the beleaguered Yen now.

Even more ironic is that it was his correct (if fairly safe; you could smell the bad economic news from a mile away) prophecy of a stock market crash that caused his oil prophecy to fail to materialize. Maybe he never got around to taking Economics at Washington and Lee. Either that or we were supposed to be in for Stagflation II: The Revenge of the Oil Shocks.

Of course Pat’s prophetic track record isn’t exactly the most illustrious, even putting this aside: no nuclear attack in 2007 (one of the more frighteningly specific ones), no hurricaines ravishing the coast in 2006 (on the opposite end of the safe spectrum, but nevertheless still wrong). But when the Lord takes to mocking your predictions like this, it’s probably a good sign that God is not telling you this stuff, Pat.