Gas Is Down Again - $2.099 - almost $1.00 less than I paid a month ago.

[leftyladyfrommo]

I like it alot. But I am also really pissed off that our prices were so high for so long when they shouldn't have been.

Can you say "price gouging?"

[global1]

1. Nov '06 Election Coming Up - Wait Til December For Them To......

start moving back up.

[rzemanfl]

7. They may stay low until after Xmas shopping is over. There are

all sorts of reasons to manipulate the sheeple.

[OzarkDem]

20. Nah, they'll go back up after election day

The GOP and their energy friends are pretty brazen.

[Individualist]

41. most likely the day after the election

IMO

[marmar]

21. Exactly...

Can you say $3.80 a gallon? Happy Holidays!

[liberaldemocrat7]

28. PEOPLE, ENJOY YOUR CHEAP GAS NOW. THE GOP WILL RAISE THE PRICE

PEOPLE, ENJOY YOUR CHEAP GAS NOW. THE GOP WILL RAISE THE PRICE AFTER THE ELECTION. VOTE DEMOCRATIC. DON'T STAND FOR TOO LITTLE TOO LATE GAS PRICE REDUCTION ELECTION PLOYS.


http://www.zazzle.com/product/228015890545644851

[JuniperLea]

2. Bush wasn't to blame for the rise, but he is to thank for the lowering

Another bullshit Repugnantcan meme.

[Botany]

3. Can you say election?

If anybody can not see the link and that big oil = bush/Cheney
they are either being stupid on purpose or really do think that Jesus
wanted George W Bush to start an unneeded war.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. We do seem to have an abundance of clueless people out there

right now.

I can't understand how they can buy into all this stuff. But they do.

[rzemanfl]

12. Somebody who is 75 years old or stupid may find it difficult to

change long held beliefs about the government telling the truth and the "free market law of supply and demand."

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Yup, Repukes packing up and losing their Senate seats....

,,,In November will cause the Gas to go back up to a small fortune...Its a Repuke Ploy another Con.

[kentuck]

5. How come it's still 2.87 in CO ??

Are your political stakes more valuable than ours??

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I have no idea. Still seems high in some places

and way down in others. Ohio or Iowa is really low.

[Nickster]

11. It's higher in the Blue states and lower in the Red and Swing states.

Seems pretty obvious to me.

[Not Me]

17. Actually, in Orlando the drop has been modest...

Down from ~3.00/gal at the high, to about $2.59 now.

[IDemo]

22. Still in the 2.80 - 90's here in JesusLand ! -n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. Same here in NY.....

[fed-up]

9. still $2.73 in northern CA, only down 50 cents in last month n/t

[Wiley50]

10. still $2.39 40 miles east of Nashville

Where are you?

[shadowknows69]

13. You want price gouging

were still at 2.71 in upstate NY

[lgn19087]

25. Most localized higher prices are due to taxes

You should try to figure out what ammount of money your paying in taxes each gallon.

[shadowknows69]

27. Or I could just kick myself in the groin

and feel much better.

[lgn19087]

31. Is that anatomically possible? n/t

nm

[LostinVA]

46. $2.51 in my part of Central VA

[INdemo]

14. The prices are going down faster than I really expected

I predicted $1.65 to $1.85 by Nov 7th..The oil comapnies are worried about a windfall tax and thats what the Democrats will give them.. The Repubs is their only hope to keep the price gouging in place..

[cmf]

15. the republicans must not be concerned with taking my state

Prices here have only gone down 15-20 cents or since the peak in early summer.

[imfreaky]

16. Down in NC too

$2.31 yesterday. From what i understand, gas/oil prices are determined by their "futures" ie what investors beleive it is worth in some predetermined amt. of time. what's frustrating is it has nothing to do with actual supply or demand. I saw a head line somewhere where we used less oil the first part of this year as a country, but yet gas prices were higher. Go figure...

[Justice Is Comin]

19. You want to really get mad?

I heard there is a company in New Jersey that has a technique perfected and proven where they can inject steam into wells thought to be depleted or inactive oil wells, that will release much more oil from the surrounding shale.

They have proven they can extract another 200-1,500 barrels a day from these wells with this technique. It works the same way sawdust absorbs oil if you put it on a garage oil spill. The heat releases that oil.

They have contacted every major oil company with the proposal that they will do this for free on every oil well only for a percentage of the oil extracted and not one of the bastards has contacted them.

There are thousands and thousands of capped oil wells that could generate this new oil.

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. I think we should just quit using oil anyway we can - and just

stuff it down the oil companies throats.

We have the technology to do just that - we just need to make it so.

[lildreamer316]

38. The person above was referring to this article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2154758

INTERESTING NOTE:
IN that article, the author says:
<snip>
"This is not the first time we have seen this abhorrent strategy at play. Brazil has become energy independent through the very cost-efficient ethanol in less than a decade with their "flex-fuel" vehicles that are even made in Detroit. Back in 1992 America had the chance to do the same when an inventor from Austin, Texas named Charles Cantrell first introduced Earthguard bio-fuel to the world. This writer was one of dozens who flew into Texas to watch a demonstration of a race car running laps on nothing but Earthguard fuel, made from sugar beets for less than five cents a gallon. The car was then hooked up to emission test equipment as well as a dyno-meter to prove that emissions were less than half those of conventional fuels and horsepower levels actually increased. It was a proven solution without a single drawback. Sugar beets grow well in the U.S. and within a decade, the U.S. could have completely weaned itself off of foreign petroleum. The rights to Earthguard were sold to an undisclosed buyer and to this day, it was never offered at a single gas pump in the world. Why?"
<snip>

Gee. ANOTHER great idea gone. I'm dying to know about this one, too. Increased horsepower???

[Hailtothechimp]

24. That drop does not mean that everything is dandy.

But that's the way the media will spin it to you.

The 75 cents or a dollar PER GALLON you were paying 2 months ago is now sitting in some oil executive's offshore account, and he's NOT giving it back.

Take it out on them this November.

[Loge23]

26. Now I'm angrier than ever about big oil.

So the prices have come down and the "supply & demand" bunch will spin off more untruths about why this is so. But the truth is hard to hide here. The summer season over (demand) and the political season (supply) in full gear.
And what becomes of the enormously fat profits from overcharging all summer? We'll hear about that when the quarterlies come in.
Short of storming the oil HQ's and dragging out the thieves there's very little we can do about it -other than to keep the heat on the sheeple who now believe that life is great all over again.

[Aviation Pro]

37. I drove back and forth to work all summer....

...do I get a discount for not driving all over hell and creation between June and September? No. Do I think that it's in Big Oil's best interest to keep Congress in RepubliCON hands? Goodness, yes. Will a Democratic Congress impose a stiff windfall profit tax on Big Oil if they get in? Heavens to Betsy, yes. Will John Conyers get supboena power and through discovery find out that the plan for the administration was completely driven by Big Oil? Undoubtedly he will. Does fucking Donald Rumsfeld sound like an idiot? Unquestionably. Is he an appeaser? My goodness gracious, compare the two photos:

[orwell]

29. So the price is down almost 30%...

...on the retail end, but crude is down around 20% on the wholesale end.

Sounds like a fix to me...

[borlis]

30. I paid $2.56 this morning /north Chicago burbs

But when I got back to my own suburb the prices were $2.79 and $2.69. I was only about 8 miles away from home when I filled up. I don't get how prices can be so different.

[tyedyeto]

35. On Friday, gas was $2.66 here....

Yesterday, in Tucson (20 miles from here), I saw it for $2.45. I know it doesn't cost $.20 per gallon to truck it 20 miles. :grr:

[renate]

32. In this blue state it's gone down 10 cents in some places

... not at all in others, from a high of $3.

I guess our election results have already been pretty much decided, and not to the GOP's liking.

[spanone]

33. These people are the best manipulators in the biz. World class.

[Snotcicles]

34. It"s called buying votes. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

36. $2.20 in eastern VA. Drove from Chapel Hill, NC to Norfolk, VA

and back Fri/Sat and noticed gas was higher in larger towns, and near the interchange with US 95--by about $.30/gallon. Lowest prices were out in the boonies between small towns.

[earth mom]

39. I'm in a blue state and we're still being ripped off.

We should do a poll and see if the thugs are favoring the red states on this one, because it sounds like it! :grr:

[nini]

42. great minds think alike.. I didn't see your post before posting mine

but, we're thinking the same way here.

[earth mom]

45. Guess most of us around here know the THUGS are gonna bribe, steal, coerce

and oh yeah frighten votes out of people any which way they can! :(

:hi:

[nini]

40. I'd like to know if it's falling more in red states than blue

It's not near that low here but then CA is blue and will stay that way. I wonder if they're trying to pull back any folks in the red states they fear they may have lost and are stupid enough to fall for it. :shrug:

[phylny]

43. It's still high here in the Hudson Valley of NY

It's currently between $2.959 and $3.059

[IDemo]

44. See post #22

[Javaman]

47. Check out my theory on this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2511861&mesg_id=2512603