If that tin foil makes his head sweat?
Seattle uber-leftblogger, Goldy, thinks that there is more to the rising gasoline prices than meets the eye.
High gas prices were an affront and a hardship that voters angrily faced every day, and so it was with some suspicion that I watched gas prices inexplicably plummet a national average of 75 cents a gallon during the final two months leading up to the election. I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but if oil industry executives wanted to do their best to prop up the corporatist-sponsored Republican leadership… this was a great way to do it.
And now that election day has passed? Hmm. Well I don’t know about your neighborhood, but prices here in South Seattle started rising within days, and are already up as much as a dime a gallon at some stations.
I have to guess that in his ejaculations over the Dem wins on November 7th, he missed the news stories about crude oil prices started going up by at least a dime a barrel nearly every day starting on that day.
When your party, the one that wants to ignore Iran, the one wants to let Iraq sink into a full-blown civil war and not just the one now being staged for the media, the one that wants to dump billions of dollars of taxes and fees onto the oil and gas industy and regulate said industry into a corner, when that party gets its hands on the Legislative Branch of government, people get nervous.
If I were in the oil and gas industry, I’d start raising my prices too. Lawyers cost money.
Curious. The gasoline prices around here have been dropping a bit even in spite of the election. I guess we’ll have to wait for January for the dems to start ‘governing’ to push the prices back up.