Smirky, it isn't working for you anymore.

[deminks]

42 percent of Americans say Bush administration manipulated gas prices

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15004503

There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. motorists.

Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.

According to a new Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Bush administration “deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall’s elections.” Fifty-three percent of those surveyed did not believe in this conspiracy theory, while 5 percent said they had no opinion.

The excitement — and suspicion — among U.S. motorists follows a post-summer decline in gasoline prices that even veteran analysts and gas station owners concede has been steeper than usual.

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1. Something funny going on

My daughter is a college in Upstate NY. For the past 3 years the gas there has always been lower than here on Long Island. She just came home this past weekend and said the gas there is 40 cents a gallon HIGHER now than here. Why? They need more Republican votes downstate?

There is a small CITGO station near where I live. For the past TWENTY YEARS he has always been higher than every station around. Now, he is the LOWEST station within a 5 mile radius. Why? Has Chavez lowered the price that much since his UN speech?

Don't tell me it isn't being manipulated. Unfortunately, my Utility Companies and their Fuel Surcharges still haven't gotten the Campaign Message.