Dems Show Spine & Gas Drops 25%

Cause and effect? Regular gas in my town has dropped from a pre-Cindy Sheehan-start-of-all-of-bush's-ills high of $3.10 to 2.35 a gallon today.

I'm just sayin'...

profits tax, and charges of market manipulation.

That's a bit like saying that the increase in global warming is due to the decrease in pirates, isn't it?

After all, there have been less and less pirates since the 1800s, and the temperature has slowly but steadily risen in that time.

Where, in other words, is the causation?

(special thanks to pastafarianism)

in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism into any debate. :toast:

And has steadily declined from its peak of over $70/bbl. The decline in oil prices and the "just-in-time" nature of gasoline shipments are a more likely cause of the drop in gas prices.

A year ago, just overjoyed that gas is under $3.00/gal.

Bait and switch, bait and switch, this is what Big Oil wants you to do.

And along about next week, gas prices will start to creep up, after all, it will be the "holiday travel season" all the way through the New Year. And then it will creep up more due to "high home heating costs", drop a bit in the spring, but jump right back up for the "summer driving season" and this time next year the sheeple will be gushing about how happy they are that they're now only paying under $4.00/gal.

Meanwhile, Big Oil will continue to export petroleum over to Asia, make record profits, laugh all the way to the bank and congratulate themselves on what clever fellows they are.

But it is curious how they claimed that high prices were due to high demand. Anybody here stop driving in the past 2 months? I know I didn't.

That was another reason they gave for high gas prices. I'd like to know if that was another lie.

repubs in power so they will artificially deflate the price of oil as necessary to take away that 'irritant'and they will do it as easily as they artificially inflate the price when they feel it is 'safe' to do so.

About 3 weeks ago, Hillary Clinton, Grassely, Biden, Boxer, and another Republican senator (i forget who) started making noises about investigating price fixing and gouging. Suddenly, prices began to fall. It wasn't just dems, though. The gravy train was due to come in to the roundhouse for an inspection, and the petrofirms, the speculators, and the importers all got religion and fixed the train.

There never was a logical microeconomic reason for these gas prices. Demand didn't rise and supply never was squeezed by enough to justify 50% increase. Not even close, even when looking at the S&D curve as the normal sigmoidal shape.
The Professor