Holy crap, you all have sub $2.00/gallon gas? Last I filled up about a week about it was $2.54/gal. I’ll take a peek at the prices on my commute home and see if they’re comparable here in Seattle.
Of course, we elected an all Democratic slate in 2006. So the oil companies must be out to screw us over…
Hovering right at $2 a gal. here, though as I said, some of the stations are below that figure…Sams Club Gas is at around $1.96 and some of the Indian reservation stations are below or around there.
The point of course for those of you coming in late is that the conspiricy theory about how te 'Pubs in conjunction with Big Business™ were manipulating the price of gas to swing the elections for the 'Pubs. Seems they missed a few post-election steps…
-XT
Does it not give you pause when your argument that cold weather and India and China putting stress on the amount of gas available would result in higher prices. All the proceesses which you guys named were to be propellants for higher prices and we better get used to it. Yet they dropped. Gas prices are whatever the conglomerates say they are. All the market forces which you explained to me were making the prices high. What happened. Did India and China quit growing.? Did winter not come? The price is controlled by the few to be whatever they want it to be.
Winter did not come, Gonzo. It was 60 degrees in NYC through all of December.
Dude, the point of the thread is that gas prices are declining. :rolleyes:
We were telling you why they would decline, not rise. You kept on telling us that any decline is based upon market manipulation, and now that you can’t find evidence of it, you’re recasting the entire thread saying that we were arguing why the price can’t fall.
Uh, right.
This fall? Gas was $1.99 in Virginia this summer! 
I guess that’s because gas is cheaper in Virginia then where I live in Maryland.
7 pages of people dealing with the thread. Dude it is not so. There has been a long and wide discussion. dude.
There has certainly been a lot of posts by you attempting to change the goal posts, back peddling, saying all manner of unsupported off the wall assertions and generally attempting to be as obscure and uninformative in your usual cryptic drive by way. Dude. 
But what the hell…lets clear the boards here. What exactly IS your position then? In your own words…lets say, in two fully functional paragraphs. Obviously the price of gas has and had very little (read: nothing) to do with the elections…because its pretty much fluxuated as normal (given the mild winter so far). So…with that fantasy conspiricy down (unless you’d like to explain it in simple and easy to understand sentences), what exactly are you getting at now? The price of gas has not risen back up to what it was in the summer (no surprise to any of us who actually understand why the price of gas at the pump fluxuates)…why do YOU think it hasn’t? Whats your theory?
-XT
Unfortunately, this uninformed opinion seems to be shared by many. I guess they prefer to believe the theory that a handful of evil corporate executives manipulates prices. I guess it’s easier to understand than the reality of supply and demand.
What do you want to bet gonzo will reply with a link to a story on Enron or the Iraq war and say something like “corporations are our friends. Its all their”?
I know some people who are very upset that we can now buy gas for close to $2 per gallon. Way too cheap, and will lead to the downfall of civilization! They want to raise the price; if not by the market, by adding a heavy tax which of course goes to the gummint, and since the price of gas is so high, will make people use other kinds of energy.
And make the gummit richer, but that’s a side effect.
These people are called “conservationists” and they are our moral conscience. :rolleyes:
I bow down to you, greenies. Thank you for making cheap energy into expensive energy.
I’m glad y’all like my “dude”.
Dude is OK if you live in California. You live in Tennessee . It is not permissible.
A Michiganer telling me what’s “permissible”.
Oh, that’s rich. 
Gonzomax, here’s the trouble.
You said that the oil companies were lowering the price of gas for the election, to encourage people to vote Republican. And that as soon as the election was over, they would raise prices. However, prices are still falling, even though the election was over months ago.
If oil companies collude to fix prices, they should be colluding to fix prices at very high levels, since the higher the price of gasoline, the more money they make. If they have some reason to collude to lower the price of gasoline (like influencing an election) they should want to return to high prices as soon as possible.
Doesn’t that make sense?
If oil companies collude to set prices, the simple economics of self-interest tells us that they will want high prices, not low prices.
So why are the oil companies colluding to keep oil prices low today? When do they plan to raise prices?
Michigander…
One of my friends bought gasoline at Costco in Nashville for $1.99 a gallon.
Ahhhhhhh!
$1.85, Mn.
So - how about $3 or $4?
Looks like it was just after you posted, in late January or early February.
Ho, ho - that’s a good one.
Oh, were you serious?