Are falling gas prices and 9/11 commemorative attempts to save GOP?

[WI_DEM]

It seems like the GOP is getting some help with gas prices falling off fairly steadily the last few weeks and now with the news networks going in 9/11 overdrive. Do you think that this is an attempt to stem GOP losses in November?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Yes.

[RevCheesehead]

2. You sure got that right.

I was saying the same thing, especially when gas prices fell dramatically BEFORE Labor Day. Do they honestly think this will make me consider voting for Green or Gard? :eyes:

[stepnw1f]

3. OK... Who Voted "No"...

Seriously... get lost whoever you are.

[SteppingRazor]

4. No, I don't think so...

1. We're at the end of summer. Gas prices always drop off about this time, though I will grant you that they have dropped more than usual. However, that could be simply because they were inflated more than usual.

2. The five-year anniversary would be expected, no matter who was in the White House.

[LSK]

7. the gas prices started dropping before Labor Day

They usually drop after Labor Day.

[kaygore]

8. I've checked with friends who live where there are NOT hotly

contested races and guess what...their prices have fallen 5 and 10 cents...TOTAL...not five and ten cents a day as they are here!!!!

[GetTheRightVote]

5. Of course they are, it is so obvious, I hope people do not fall it!

The prices will go back up after the elections, and their lies will come out again.
Once lied to you should never trust them again and they lie all the time every time their mouths open, another lie rolls out.

:kick:

[kaygore]

Down to $2.23 here in Va Beach, VA--down over $.70 and falling

But then both Thelma Drake and George Allen are fighting for their political lives.

[AndyTiedye]

18. They Brought Back the Red-State Discount, Possible Swing States Get More

Out here, we're only about 15c off of our all-time high.

[havocmom]

6. yep, and even the people selling the gas admitt it

No new refineraries up and running. No Iraqi oil glutting the market... gee, must be an election year!

[FredStembottom]

12. And take a look at diesel!

When I fueled up my work truck on Friday (in MN), gas was $2.46/gallon and diesel had increased again overnight to $3.24!

Where are all the corporate whiners to claim that fuel prices will drive them under? Diesel is what powers America's economy.

Remember all the dire warnings that Dem Presidents would get even when diesel was ALWAYS the cheap fuel - below the price of gas?

[havocmom]

15. I live in a rural agricultural area. Diesel will hit your grocery bill too

Food gets planted, harvested, and brought to a market near you by diesel driven machines. ALL people will pay for diesel.

[kilgore65]

16. Yeah, I bought a one-pound sack of apples at Kroger the other day...

and paid $3.99. I told the large black woman running the register that "only under a Bush would apples be $4/pound" She nearly shook the floor with laughter...

[Lost4words]

19. and the Alaska pipeline shut down aslo.

We are being HAD in the worst way by these thugs.

Most will be placated by the not quite so high prices and it will go up again and down but not as low as before. The old 2 steps forward and 3 steps backward.

[havocmom]

20. And how many Gulf rigs still out from Katrina and Rita last year?

Plus all those oil refineraries in LA and TX that got hit. How many still not up and running.

Amazing, isn't it? All the conditions for excuses they gave for high prices are still with us AND WORSE, but prices miraculously falling.

But, it's prolly not political :rofl: Yeah, SURE it's not.:grr:

[marmar]

9. Is the bear Catholic? Does the Pope ... in the woods?

:silly:

[whistle]

10. I thank the corporate fascists for dropping the price of gasoline...

....but I still drive as little as possible and I'll still never vote for any GOP candidate or other corrupt elected official who panders to the interests of corporate fascists.

[jsamuel]

11. no and yes

Gas prices have peaked on the futures market. If you own oil stock, I suggest getting out now. Getting out before now would have been better.

The GOP obviously is using 9/11 as they always have.

[Warpy]

13. Yes and no

The 5 year anniversary of the worst attack on US soil since 1812 would surely have been commemorated today, but not with the massive hooplah that's being pushed on all the networks. It might have been a solemn moment of silence on AM shows, a brief retrospective on PM shows, but they wouldn't be rubbing salt in the wound like they are now if the GOP werent' in serious trouble.

I hate this. I can imagine how painful it is for survivors.

[izzie]

14. Yes for sure plus they have got most of our extra money

We can not even dig up some to give to the Dem. party.

[madokie]

17. Y hell yeah

[FlaGranny]

21. My husband and I were just talking about

those gas prices last week. We both agreed it was a pre-election ploy, neither of us was suprised. We both feel they will continue to drop until after the election. Then they'll rebound right back up again. And, it is quite predictable, isn't it?