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it'll be republicans because they lowered gas prices so much these last 7 years, Amirite?
 
     
regardless of how tasteless, disgusting, grotesque, uncalled for, racist, discriminatory, inflammatory, crude, rude or petty the scenario might be, my first response will always be, i loled.
 
quite frankly if the majority of new cars are ran by oil within ten years of now we might as well crawl up and die.

the technology for only electric cars already exist, and for relatively cheap no less.
we ought to be able to buy that s**t now.

you'd think GM would just release electric cars left and right considering they're gonna tank within five years anyway.
     
regardless of how tasteless, disgusting, grotesque, uncalled for, racist, discriminatory, inflammatory, crude, rude or petty the scenario might be, my first response will always be, i loled.
since when has a Dem lowered prices on anything?

Not saying the Republicans will do much better.
 
     
Karismas
 
"STAALZY"
Apparently the democrats aren't doing anything about anything. Congress and their vacations. Republicans will. Of course. Long term - We have to think about and find something, but we also need short term relief.
Plus Wall Street has an impact. If they will stop shitting their pants gas would be lower. Well since BUSH lifted the off shore drilling Ban. Gas went down. Gas will be cheaper in places where there's more independent gas stations, then the big companies.
Heh.

Missed a memo?

As for the price dropping lately, by the by, it is fundamentally impossible for offshore drilling to have caused it - because that drilling hasn't occurred. What Bush did was to lift the executive moratorium on oil exploration and the leasing of those oil rights, that didn't put any drills anywhere. All it did was put pressure on Congress to take rash action of a similar kind, or take the heat for standing in the way of "what has to be done."

Besides, a fifteen cent drop in the national average isn't, strictly speaking, all that much. Once upon a time our record gas prices were a whole lot lower.
     
"Wendigo"

As for the price dropping lately, by the by, it is fundamentally impossible for offshore drilling to have caused it - because that drilling hasn't occurred.

Wrong.

Every time the US starts acting like it's going to utilize it's own resources to their full potential, OPEC has increased their own production to cut off that competition at the pass. This increase of supply then lowers the price.

Regardless of how "fundamentally impossible" you might think it to be, that's the way that OPEC, and the market, works.
 
     
 
"Unameh"
"Wendigo"

As for the price dropping lately, by the by, it is fundamentally impossible for offshore drilling to have caused it - because that drilling hasn't occurred.

Wrong.

Every time the US starts acting like it's going to utilize it's own resources to their full potential, OPEC has increased their own production to cut off that competition at the pass. This increase of supply then lowers the price.

Regardless of how "fundamentally impossible" you might think it to be, that's the way that OPEC, and the market, works.
Any evidence to back this assertion?
     


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Seems to me that OPEC's production's been falling (somewhat) and their price has been rising (rather a lot), actually. * Maybe you've got better or more recent information; what do you base that on?
 
     
 
OPEC is no longer a oligopoly plain and simple. It can't act as a monopoly anymore given numerous other non-Opec nations being major suppliers of oil, declining influence of the organization and of course there's game theory. OPEC has a boogeyman is long gone.
     
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