I filled up my tank today. Gas has dropped at least $.15 a gallon.

[CatWoman]

and the wingnuts howl it is all due to George Bush's "genius" :silly:

what say you?

[yourout]

1. Diesel went up..anyone know why?

[CatWoman]

4. you have a definite point there

I noticed that too.

This means prices on other goods will go up even more....

[27inCali]

15. market manipulation

to try and get the low-info tards to back offshore drilling.

[NightWatcher]

2. call me when it's at 1$. We are being programmed to love 3.99$ gas when we should riot against it

raise it to 4.50 then lower it to 4 and we'll celebrate

[Avalux]

3. LOL - a coworker told me that the other day.

He said that because Bush has threatened to drill offshore, OPEC got scared and lower prices. I then said if that strategy works, why not hold a press conference and announce we've discovered oil on the moon? He didn't have a response. ;-)

[Muttocracy]

21. :)

[Angleae]

24. It doesn't work that way

OPEC doesn't set prices, the commodity/mercantile markets do and the traders know Bush doesn't have the authority to authorize drilling without congressional approval.

[Captain Angry]

5. Reduced demand as people find other ways to avoid buying gas.

Speculators took a little of their money elsewhere.

July 4th driving season has passed.

Hurricane season is about two months old with no massively damaging storms.

Etc.

[salin]

6. fear

fear that the backlash was getting too high to counteract by pure propoganda and flipping voting machines and playing block the voter at selected polling places. Guess the oilymen thought that if they can fight the exact right price point where they still maximize their gouging, but without keeping the backlash quite so high as to be insurmountble, that they'd have a better shot at getting McSame to follow Bushjr in the white house.

Then again, maybe its because the price per barrell dropped last week. :D :hi:

[CatWoman]

8. Hi, Salin

:hi:

I'm still worried about those damn voting machines.

Georgia has early voting starting tomorrow. We are having a runoff to see who will represent us in the Senate.

[salin]

13. wow - I am out of it...

didn't realize that. Is it possible that Chambliss will be sent packing?

[CatWoman]

17. Yup

> DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones (left) and former lawmaker Jim Martin appear to be headed to an Aug. 5 runoff in their race for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination. Jones and Martin led a field of five candidates. The winner will face the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, and Libertarian Allen Buckley in November. Story, D5

The thing is, I can't stand Vernon Jones. He's nothing but a hoodlum, and he goes around bragging that he voted TWICE for Bush. However, it looks like he's going to get the nomination.

Jones is currently the CEO of my county.

[salin]

18. okay... something has got to be in the water...

he *brags* about voting 2x for bush (with less than 28% still supporting bush), and looks like he will win the dem. nomination?

You need to think about moving back here... believe it or not, Obama has a slight edge over McCain. Even repub stalwarts acknowledge that Obama has a good shot at carrying the state.

[CatWoman]

20. well

I "do" miss the snow :)

[salin]

23. lol

until one has to dig out the car....

[Democrats_win]

7. Let me know when it goes down $3 to $1.85, which is merely an outrageous price.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. It means the oil and gas markets are volatile. Nothing new about it.

Move along, nothing to see here.

:evilfrown:

[Atman]

10. I drive to Massachusetts to buy gas. Sure, another state gets my tax $$...fuck 'em.

I live in CT. I recently moved from the Hartford area -- about 35 miles from the Massachusetts border -- to a place in the country, barely 24 miles from the border. My Santa Fe gets 26 mpg on the country roads. I have a weekend place on the MA/CT border, and I can last a little over a week on a tank of gas, so I wait for the weekend. Then I run up to MA (putting in 1 gallon in CT if I need it to get there) and fill up for $3.78 (this week). Gas is still $4.30 or more near my house in CT. Considering my 20-gallon tank, I'm saving almost over $10 on a tank...which is two-and-a-half gallons of gas.

There is NO EXCUSE, not even taxes, for a 52-cent difference just by crossing an imaginary line in the sand. We've always been told it's because CT has higher gas taxes, but when gas was at it's highest, MA/CT prices were virtually identical. Now that they're falling, they only seem to be doing so in MA -- CT prices haven't budged more than a few cents. Something ain't right.

.

[Subdivisions]

11. Following the same pattern it did in the summer of '06...

Prices were through the roof up until around August and then they started going down and went way down until the election. The pigs lost and it's right back up. Now, coming onto August, just like clockwork, the prices are beginning to decline and they credit bush and lower demand. First, bush hasn't done a goddamned thing about lowering the prices and, second, lower demand is highly questionable and some sources say demand it actually continuing to climb by at least 1.5%YOY.

[Ezlivin]

12. Must be that cheap ANWR gasoline you're getting

Here in Texas we're getting that cheap coastal drilling gasoline.

Thank the gods that the Republicans got that oil flowing from those sources, eh?

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Ask the attendant how often does the gas station fill their storage tanks?

There's something that doesn't correlate between the price of the gas
the station purchased from one week to the next in correlation to
oil futures and inventory.

[Atman]

16. No, there is a direct correlation:

It's called "opportunism." Or "Price gouging" in less polite circles.

.

[book_worm]

19. My response is that it was about 1.49 per gallon when Clinton left and now it's almost $4 bucks a

gallon (is in some places) and a ten, tweny or thirty cents per gallon drops here and there doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. I filled up Friday for $3.59 a gallon. $.60 less than previously.

I don't drive a lot because I work from home, so a tank will last me from 2-3 weeks.