Originally Posted By jonvn Who would have figured. Right after the election. Of course, industry experts say there are valid reasons for this. But how could I have possibly known there would be valid reasons for this a few days after election a couple months ago? Funny how it works. <a href="http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=5665001" target="_blank">http://www.kron4.com/Global/st ory.asp?S=5665001</a>
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh Yes, it's weird how winter occurs after the election, thus driving up demand for petroleum based heating products. It must be a conspiracy.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Hey, for folks who want to find a conspiracy in everything there is nothing you can say that would make them think otherwise. Why belabor the point?
Originally Posted By cmpaley Gas drops like a rock months before the election and starts skyrocketing the day before the same election in an area where Republicans are going to lose anyway. Hmmm. Oh, that's RIGHT. It's the holiday driving season. Oh, and don't forget, heating oil. Oh, and let's remember that the third world's oil demend is still high. Of course, that doesn't explain why the prices dropped so fast. Hmmm... Could they be more OBVIOUS!?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's almost as if they were worried about a Democratic congress rescinding the billions in tax credits they got from the GOP. The ones they got when they were posting profits in the billions of dollars every quarter.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Wow...just wow. And you say Rush's followers are nuts. When the prices went down (end of summer...when school started and people stopped travelling) I said they would go back up in November as travelling began to rise again (Thanksgiving and Christmas) and the cold weather moved in up north. The prices have nothing to do with the Democrats or the Republicans...but ya'll keep believing it. You are buying right into the crap that they are selling.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer The prices have more to do with the oil companies than they do with the party in power. But one party has more favorable conditions and less oversight than the other party as far as the oil industry is concerned.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper But neither party has enough power to influence the prices in the short term and that is what is being suggested in this "conspiracy theory". It is supply and demand. Demand dropped at the end of August. It is going back up as the holidays near.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>But neither party has enough power to influence the prices in the short term and that is what is being suggested in this "conspiracy theory".<< Not exactly. The suggestion is that oil companies manipulated prices at the pump prior to the election the help the Republicans win.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It is supply and demand. Demand dropped at the end of August. It is going back up as the holidays near.<< FWIW in my neck of the woods our gas prices hit their low point last time in January.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 we have so much tax on ours, even when the proices drop for crude, since only about 1/2 the total prices is made up of crude price - we don't see the huge drop. My daughter goes to schoolin St Louis and they are always 35 - 45 cents a gallon less than here.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>KRON 4's Mark Jones talked with some motorists who think gas prices were artificially lowered to help politicians in the recent elections.<< DUH! I smelt that a mile away .... as prices lowered ... getting closer and closer to Nov 7th!
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Supply and demand haven't fluctuated 30% in the past few months, but prices have.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Ok, ya'll go on believing what you want to. I'm going to go have a conversation with my 4 year old. I think I am now prepped for him.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I could buy the 'holiday driving season is here, increasing demand' argument if, you know, the holiday driving season were actually here.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Well, we are a week removed from Thanksgiving. We just had Veteran's Day (a big driving weekend in Florida for sure). How much closer do we need to be for it to be considered the "holiday season"? And Tom, I think my comment was a necessary as cmpaley's sarcastic reply.
