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Geez, I thought the Repub. got the gas prices lowered to WIN some elections. They must have thought we are a bunch of gullible people since most of the Dems. won.
Wait a minute since the gas prices went up after the Dems. won they must have had something to do with it. ??
You can come up with a conspiracy to fit most anyones cause
Please don't tell me we are starting the whole 08 election debate already
I saw something else a few weeks ago that described the economic black magic Big Oil can do. I didn't read the whole thing, but it seemd to focus on how Big Oil can mask profits during big price increases and how refinery pricing can allow retail gasoline prices to be manipulated. Both temporarily.
Despite the fact that I believe Big Oil does do a lot of conspiring for political reasons, I don't believe it's guilty this time. Bush & the Republicans have made the Middle East a much more unsettled place and have crippled the US's ability to throw its weight around to serve US oil industry interests. Why would Big Oil want even more of that?
The new Democrats are no more liberal than 1970s-era Republicans and are equally corporate-friendly, so they're not about to come in and nationalize the industry or anything. Big Oil was might have been more worried about two more years of unfettered Republican rule than by a Democratic congress.
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