The October Surprise: Gas $2.00 per gallon.

[trof]

Ooooo supplies are WAY UP!
Ooooo station near me is now selling it at $2.40 and people are LINED UP to get it.
By October it will be "down" to 2 bucks and everyone will think it's great.
Nobody remember's prices well under $2 last year.

Whew. At least that's over and there's no such thing as Peak Oil anymore.
George**s guys will take credit for it.
Yay repugs.

Happy happy smiley smiley.

[eleny]

1. Yeah - Did George finally tell them to "open the spigots"?

[MADem]

4. He jawboned them Ay-rabs, did he? NT

[Ezlivin]

2. That drilling in ANWR must have done it

Or those extra efficient cars that GM and Ford have been making.

Yep, Peak Oil is over and we all feel better.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. "Down" to $2.67/gal here

Considering it was $1.75/gal two years ago when I bought my car (I log every fill).

[demosincebirth]

10. Where is "here?"

[CatholicEdHead]

19. See avatar

southern Minnesota.

[demosincebirth]

23. Thanks, I'm not too good on mid west states.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Gas companies are scared shitless that the Dems.................

will win back congress and there will be hell to pay.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. Yep.

See The Windfall Profits Rebate Act of 2005 (S. 1631) (Dorgan)

[HereSince1628]

6. They must be after Alabama voters cause it aint that cheap in Wisconsin

I suppose I could believe they are trying to prevent the re-election of a Dem Governor...

But I ain't buying that it's Rove or the GOP. In the last week the investigation into BP has price manipulation of gasoline prices just kicked into a higher gear since it looks like they are guilty of manipulating oil prices. I think the other companies saw that and that they are tyring to get their hands out of the cookie jar.

I believe that sort of conspiracy is more likely than Rove manipulating gas prices.

[demosincebirth]

7. Who said Oil Companies don't manipulate prices?

[maxsolomon]

8. still over $3 in WA state

that sweet alaskan crude isn't flowing so well these days & someone has to pay.

[demosincebirth]

9. $2.95 a gal in the Bay Area, at some stations.

[fuzzyball]

20. Could be because WA state just increased gasoline tax?

[Warpy]

11. We were all predicting a big drop last spring

just in time for elections.

Will it be enough? I don't think so. People would have to trust that the prices would keep going down, and that's not going to happen. "Trust" and the GOP are mutually exclusive these days.

Too bad they're not all that keen on Democrats, either.

[leveymg]

12. This happened in '04 also.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0408/S00278.htm

Mark G. Levey: Bush's Gas Pump Ploy
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 12:05 pm


BUSH'S GAS PUMP PLOY

Are Major U.S. Oil Refiners and Distributors Holding Back Price Increases Until After the Elections?
By Mark G. Levey

The Bush Administration is putting a happy face on the near-doubling of the world price of crude oil to $50 a barrel during the last 18 months, a price explosion brought on by the Iraq War and other bungled adventures in petroleum producing countries. Here's the spin: it's an economic stimulus package.

SNIP

[itsrobert]

13. Also Car Companies are trying to dump their SUV/TRUCKS that weren't sellin

selling due to high gas prices. Coincidence?

[bigwillq]

14. I paid $2.97 here in CT

that's the lowest it's been in awhile.

[SeattleVet]

15. Found one station in Seattle that's under $3 for all grades, for the first

time in a long time. (I usually ride my motorcycle, and the high-compression engine needs premium, but it gets a lot better mileage than the car!)

It's the AM/PM (Arco) on Aurora at 85th. Passed by last night on the way home and it was something like $2.98 for premium.

[Imagevision]

16. BP cuts oil production 50% - gas prices drop, yeah, r-i-g-h-t

BP's Alaska pipeline probs and they announce gas will go to $4.00-$5.00 a gallon
and recently gas prices drop you say? amazing what goes down in an election year!

[marlakay]

17. Still $3.11 here

Central WA state.

But I have been driving my new scooter around town and after 100 miles of driving errands I put in my $2.71 to fill it up yesterday!! I feel great....

[No Exit]

18. Better make it 99 cents a gallon, you repuke b*stards.

'Cause I ain't buyin'.

[JesterCS]

22. $2.37 Cincy, Ohio n/t

[jenmito]

24. I liked what someone e-mailed Cafferty on this subject today...

"Good. That's more money I'll have to contribute to the Dem. party."

[Awsi Dooger]

25. Not budging in Las Vegas

A month ago we were smack on the national average. Now 14 cents above. It's gone down a whopping 2 cents at all my closest stations. The lowest near me is $2.90 but most places in the range of $2.95 or $2.97.

[bklyncowgirl]

26. Prediction: Prices up to $3.00 by Thanksgiving nt

[OneTwentyoNine]

27. Dropping daily--hell,almost by the hour around here....

And whats funny is a barrel of Oil is almost the same price as this date last year when we hit $3.20 per gallon. I started tracking Oil vs pump price on 8/25/05. Yesterday the price dropped another .07 per gallon. We're at 2.55 this morning.

Gee,elections about 60 days away and gas prices dropping,who'd thunk it?

[Vinca]

28. I wish I had a storage facility so I'd have my cheap gas

AFTER THE ELECTION.