Anyone with a brain shouldn't be surprised at the drop in gas prices

[mtnsnake]

(so any lurking Republican voters might wanna skip this thread)

Hell, I predicted in two separate threads, one of them almost a year ago and one again earlier this summer that gas prices would drop dramatically at this time of year to around 2.50/gal to buy the votes of the ignorant.

All they had to do was increase prices horrendously to begin with, make obscene profits, and then lower them just in time for the elections. Life will seem good and Bush will be heralded the week before the election for lowering those energy prices, even though they're not really low, they just seem it by relative comparison.

Here's another prediction I'll make for ya which concerns the recent discovery by Chevron of that gigantic oil pool in the Gulf of Mexico which "could boost our American oil reserves by 50%". Supposedly this pool is huge and holds "3 billion to 15 billion barrels of oil and natural gas liquids". Anyway, I predict that sometime soon after this Fall's election, they'll announce that this momentus oil reserve was not as big as they first thought and that it only holds around 3 to 8 quarts. Upon hearing of this mistake, the price of oil will then go through the roof AGAIN, maybe to $4.50. However, expect another monumental drop sometime in late summer or early Fall of 2008, when prices will drop from $4.50 a gallon to $3.25 and life will seem good again just before voting day.

[blue cat]

1. I predict

that you are right.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Correct, but I predict that the oil will be very difficult and expensive

to obtain because of the extreme depths at which it is located.

[mtnsnake]

5. Yes, but just the announcement of it helped reduce the price per barrel

Such good timing for everything, eh.

[muesa]

15. Environmentalists and environmental law suits

will be the evil denizens of the deep to keep Chevron from recovering the oil. So "It ain't our fault - it's them tree huggers."

Meanwhile, Chevron is spending $13M to a Ballot , the , to fund alternative, renewable, and clean energy research, development, engineering, and implementation.

This Gulf find allows them say "See, we don't really need E/85 or Bio-Diesel or EtOH.

[dipsydoodle]

3. 3 to 8 quarts

That much ! :rofl:

[Preening Fop]

4. The Crystals Confirm: Your Spot On.......!

:yoiks:

[napi21]

6. Oh I agree! However, I was surprised at how many other people

think that same thing! I've actually made a gameout of asking different people "Gee, did yousee how much the price of gasis today?" I have yet to hear ANYONE say anything but a version of "Yea, well the election is two months away, huh?"

I'm pleasantly surprised!!!

[moobu2]

8. Same here

I mention it all the time to everyone I to see what they think. It’s always the elections.

[mtnsnake]

11. Are any Repugs tho? I did the same thing to this one neocon acquaintance

and he said, "Oh, it's got nothing to do with the elections", to which I responded, "You people who voted for Bush are more fucking gullible than I thought!"

Anyway, that's a good sign if most people you're doing that to are coming up with similar election-related responses.

[Journeyman]

7. Agreed. I'd also add that prices have dropped and will continue to drop...

as a hedge by the oil companies in the event the Democrats seize control of the House or Senate. They'll do this to stave off potential investigations into the price of oil over the past few years. If the prices are low in February 2007, I can't imagine Congress would look too closely at past performance, what with all the other pressing issues there are that need investigating. Remember how the price of energy plummeted after Sen. Jeffords tipped the balance in 2001? And this in the aftermath of the Energy Pirates' rape of California.

[BlueStorm]

9. That is how I felt as well...

I was thinking about the gas prices the other day, and was wondering about it when a thought popped into my head that they lowered because of the elections coming up. Damn, the Repugs must be that desperate.

Blue

[TwentyFive]

10. An evangelical christian I know said god put the oil reserves in the Gulf

so that the price of oil will go down, and keep the Republicans in office. So see, God is a Republican.

Rush, Cheney, Hannity must be sitting back in high back expensive leather chairs...puffing on $25 Cuban cigars...laughing at how easy it is to fool these idiots. Bush on the other hand, would sit there like a child that does not get the joke.

[mtnsnake]

14. HAHAHA! Now THAT is funny!

Rush, Cheney, Hannity must be sitting back in high back expensive leather chairs...puffing on $25 Cuban cigars...laughing at how easy it is to fool these idiots.

Don't forget Karl Rove. I'm sure he's playing a major role in these artificially forced and well-timed fluctutations at the pump.

[spanone]

12. Yep. K&R

[Rageneau]

13. Yeah, but how many wingnuts have a brain?

They don't THINK think. They reguri-think what they've been told to think.

And what they have been told to think about oil is that the mysterious and unpredictable petroleum market determines price-per-barrel all by itself -- on an almost hourly basis.

And no one knows why or can do anything about it.

So might as well vote republican, because they KICK ASS!

[mtnsnake]

16. That, my friend, is our number one problem. Most voters don't have a brain

or at least not a very good one. However, Democrats, as smart as we are, haven't figured out a way to capitalize on this by making it clear that NAIVE dummies vote Republican and smart people vote Democrat. If we could make that association stick, we wouldn't lose another election for decades.

[BrklynLiberal]

17. It is the same crock of crap that they spout about Alaskan oil being able

to reduce our oil prices and dependency on foregin sources. It would be a mere drop in the bucket, and only serves to deter us from what should be the primary goals..ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES and increasing efficiency of automobiles!
It is political sleight of hand, and another way to detract from the real issues.

[matt819]

18. Corporatocracy

You are absolutely spot on with this prediction. It's an excellent example of the rise of the corporatocracy, where the objectives of government and big business merge, with each doing the other's bidding. The super rich get their tax cuts, and they reward their patrons with a decline in gas prices to coincide with the run-up to the mid-term elections, only to raise them beginning, say, in mid-November.

The Disney/ABC fiasco is another example. Not only is the network airing this crap, which is a product of extremist arch-conservatives, but they are running it in conjunction with a speech by the divider-in-chief.

And, let's not forget CBS Evening News and its softball interview of the decider and then giving airtime to a drug addict with a national audience among, surprise surprise, the radical right.

Feel free to add to these examples.

It is going to take generations to undo the damage this adminstration has done.

[Cobalt-60]

19. 5.00 gas the day after the election

count on it.