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despite the fact that apparently the fact that gas prices are so low may not be a "good" thing according to many news stories I've heard but then again I tend to question anything I hear on the corporate owned "mainstream" media including, unfortunately, NPR as of late.
After last summer, I was damn near convinced that we would NEVER see gas anywhere below $2 and maybe even not lower than $3 the way things seemed to be going last summer.
I honestly don't expect gas prices to remain this ridiculously low although I think I'll be o.k. as long as it stays mostly in the $2 range.
"My theory is that the oil companies dropped it down to help McCain" LOL. Yeah, it SURE helped him all right. :eyes: I was actually a little worried that with gas prices being so high that McCain/Palin's push for expanded drilling may gain some real traction with voters and, unfortunately, I believe that the offshore drilling moratorium DID expire at some point during the campaign however neither that nor the precipitous drop in gas prices benefited McCain/Palin as much as I thought it might. Well, actually, I suspect that the decline in gas prices may have actually hurt them b/c suddenly people weren't focusing in on gas prices as much. Plus, Obama kind of took the issue off the table by agreeing to consider offshore drilling- but only as part of a comprehensive package. That and the economic crisis that exploded in September/October probably took most of the attention away from the gas price issue too IMHO.
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