Anyone check gas prices recently?

[ljb5]

http://www.GasBuddy.com/gb_retail_pr...aspx?city1=USA Average&city2=&city3=&crude=n&tme=3&units=us

Down nearly 40 cents per gallon in two months of continuous decline.

Remember when all the conservatives were freaking out? The seem kinda silent now.

[Bob Adams]

All hail 'Bama!

[LeeG]

that sneaky Obama!

[elf]

Obviously, the all-powerful man with the magic wand who makes everything happen arranged it.

[ljb5]

Obviously, the all-powerful man with the magic wand who makes everything happen arranged it.

Mitt Romney will be along soon to take credit for it, just like he did for the automakers' bailout.

[skuthorp]

Here it's lower than it's been for about two years, but then the A$'s up, oil is down and there's an enquiry into price gouging under way.

[John of Phoenix]

I used to have one of Boone Pickens kids as a coworker. He'd come into the office a few times a year and we'd get to pick his brain about the oil patch. His "convert the truckers to natural gas" idea is the smartest thing I've heard in a long time. It'll never get anywhere thanks to the oil lobby, but it's still a good idea.

[Paul Pless]

And why pray tell lj are gas prices down? Have anything to do with a slowing U.S. economy?

[Phillip Allen]

And why pray tell lj are gas prices down? Have anything to do with a slowing U.S. economy?

Bush's fault

[John of Phoenix]

And why pray tell lj are gas prices down? Have anything to do with a slowing U.S. economy?

The US economy isn't slowing at all. It's recovering but very slowly. China's growth is slowing a bit and that contribtes to lower oil prices.

Simple supply and demand this time.

[Tom Montgomery]

Gasoline prices are down? Oh dear!

Obviously we need to ramp up the war threats on Iran.

[LeeG]

I used to have one of Boone Pickens kids as a coworker. He'd come into the office a few times a year and we'd get to pick his brain about the oil patch. His "convert the truckers to natural gas" idea is the smartest thing I've heard in a long time. It'll never get anywhere thanks to the oil lobby, but it's still a good idea.

it's a good idea but the problem as I understand it is that the commitment to NG vehicles and distribution requires some assurance the duration of increased production can be sustained long enough to justify the changeover. I think it'll work in specific routes and locations but won't make much of an impact for 150million passenger vehicles running on petrol where the "alternatives" will continue to be paying more and driving less.

[Phillip Allen]

http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_n...y-weakens?lite

http://news.yahoo.com/signs-indicate...083017661.html

http://www.usatoday.com/money/econom...isk/55376548/1

just thought I'd bump this in case you guys (accidently on purpose) missed it

[Glen Longino]

Bush's fault

You really think so, or merely trying to show us your cynicism and angst again?

[brad9798]

You really lowered yourself to post this as if it is some sort of political issue?

I thought you were 'smarter' than that, lj.

Since when does oil/gas have to do with BO?!?

[LeeG]

oh heck, here's some c&p

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/ener...g=search-river

The history of oil prices since 2007 suggests that a permanent doubling of oil prices, while possible in theory, are not possible in reality. We have been bumping against the pain barrier since the first oil price spike in 2008. As we substitute more and more unconventional oil for depleting conventional oil, the consequence will not be sustained oil prices at double current levels, but the shrinking of the global economy, or, as I have called it previously, the Great Contraction. Oil prices could actually drift lower, not higher, as we fall into the deflationary vortex.

So enjoy the relative stability of the next two years, and take advantage of the narrow ledge concept to trade oil profitably as it bounces between the price floor and ceiling. Just be aware that a large waterfall awaits at the end of that quiet stretch of river, and be ready to head for shore before you get there.

[Bob Adams]

You really lowered yourself to post this as if it is some sort of political issue?

I thought you were 'smarter' than that, lj.

Since when does oil/gas have to do with BO?!?

Obama had no more to do with the price going down than he did with it going up. Illjay will use anything he thinks shines a better light on anything liberal.

[hokiefan]

just thought I'd bump this in case you guys (accidently on purpose) missed it

Didn't miss them at all. Just took the time to read them. Have you Phillip? Do they really say what you think they say?

Bobby

[LeeG]

silly Brad, ljb5 isn't saying Obama has anything to do with oil prices. It was the Repubs who tried to make rising prices a political issue by saying the US gov't was somehow responsible for high prices because it was stifling domestic production and by implication domestic production has some affect on the price of oil. It's a dumb ass belief that many hold that isn't supported by any facts.

[LeeG]

Obama had no more to do with the price going down than he did with it going up. Illjay will use anything he thinks shines a better light on anything liberal.

No, ljb5 has a memory that extends beyond 6wks. Don't you remember the Republican talking point to associate Obama with high oil prices?

[Glen Longino]

Aw Brad, of course it's a political issue, and it has been for the past three years.
El Jay did not make it a political issue, he only observed that it has been an issue.
Surely you've heard or read comments during the past three years such as, ""Higher gas prices will hurt Obama's chances of re-election in 2012."?
Have a good evening, Sir!

[Paul Pless]

silly Brad, ljb5 isn't saying. . .

No, ljb5 has a . . .

El Jay did not make it a. . .

yeah whatever, dude's still a dork. . .

[Donn]

yeah whatever, dude's still a dork. . .

Plus One.

[LeeG]

yeah whatever, dude's still a dork. . .

my gf calls me a dork when I try to flirt with her. Love is cruel.

[LeeG]

Plus One.

speaking of d**ks

[Glen Longino]

yeah whatever, dude's still a dork. . .

Careful, you're sounding like Spirow Agnew's..."effete intellctual". you and Donn!

[Donn]

Careful, you're sounding like Spirow[sic] Agnew's..."effete intellctual[sic]". you and Donn!

You're sounding like a Texan intellectual.

[Glen Longino]

You're sounding like a Texan intellectual.

I reckon that makes me the first one.

[johnw]

On Vashon Island, gas is $4.79 at one station, $4.77 at the other. The whole west coast has been left out of this drop in gas prices, but it's particularly painful here.

[Bob Adams]

No, ljb5 has a memory that extends beyond 6wks. Don't you remember the Republican talking point to associate Obama with high oil prices?

Yeah, I called bull$hit on that too.

[Glen Longino]

Yeah, I called bull$hit on that too.

Of course you did!
So what?

[LeeG]

Yeah, I called bull$hit on that too.

I may be in error but didn't we have a go around a couple years ago about the affect of US oil production on the price of fuel?

[Paul Pless]

That's quite funny coming from you Lee.

[Bob Adams]

I may be in error but didn't we have a go around a couple years ago about the affect of US oil production on the price of fuel?

I was refering to the political spin.

[brad9798]

PLUS-2, PPless!

[ljb5]

I never said this had anything to do with Obama.

I noted, however, that Republicans blamed Obama for higher prices... so it seems like they'd credit him with lower prices.

But I didn't say anything about Obama or speculate as to the cause of the decline.

[Phillip Allen]

I never said this had anything to do with Obama.

I noted, however, that Republicans blamed Obama for higher prices... so it seems like they'd credit him with lower prices.

But I didn't say anything about Obama or speculate as to the cause of the decline.

it was implied...

[ljb5]

it was implied...

Perhaps you have me confused with genglandoh.

Two weeks ago, he started a thread called, "Will falling Gas prices help Obama?"

He mentioned Obama. I did not.

[Phillip Allen]

of course not... go on then, Sir

[pefjr]

Remember when all the conservatives were freaking out? The seem kinda silent now.

Did you get an A+ in Norm's "How to divide the bilge and suck in the partisans troll class"?

[Paul Pless]

Remember when all the conservatives were freaking out?

All the conservatives? or some (even many) Republican partisans?

Competence matters. So does honesty, to some folks at least. . .

[LeeG]

it was implied...

How could it be implied when he didn't say anything about Obama in the opening post?

[ljb5]

I'm almost curious as to why Paul, Phillip, Bob and Brad didn't freak out over genglandoh's thread.

He mentioned Obama. Kinda seems like that would have set them off.

[Paul Pless]

I'm almost curious as to why Paul, Phillip, Bob and Brad didn't freak out over genglandoh's thread.

He mentioned Obama. Kinda seems like that would have set them off.

Genglandoh's political trolls are frikkin whacko. I almost never respond to, or even read his partisan crap. . .


FWIW, on average, I only get to about ten percent of your garbage. You've been kinda quiet lately on the environmental front, which is the one area I tend to agree with you.

[Phillip Allen]

I'm almost curious as to why Paul, Phillip, Bob and Brad didn't freak out over genglandoh's thread.

He mentioned Obama. Kinda seems like that would have set them off.

I'm sure you won't understand but I don't read most of your posts... why don't you come over to my agreement thread and we'll find some common ground for a change?

[ljb5]

I'm sure you won't understand but I don't read most of your posts... why don't you come over to my agreement thread and we'll find some common ground for a change?

Not only did you read this one.... you read stuff I didn't even write!

The question was not whether you read my post... but why you didn't express the same level of outrage over genglandoh's nearly identical thread.

We've discussed the Patriot Act already. I pointed out that key parts of it have been struck down by the courts, over-turned by Congress or allowed to lapse. You don't seem capable of understanding that.

[Paul Pless]

We've discussed the Patriot Act already. I pointed out that key parts of it have been struck down by the courts, over-turned by Congress or allowed to lapse.

And other 'key parts' of it still stand while even other 'key parts' of it have been expanded. Might you have a point?

[Phillip Allen]

And other 'key parts' of it still stand while even other 'key parts' of it have been expanded. Might you have a point?

I'd think a well educated fellow would know better than to let himself get so politically polorized as to become a mere 'useful idiot'

[ljb5]

And other 'key parts' of it still stand while even other 'key parts' of it have been expanded. Might you have a point?

Yes. Things aren't simple and people who need them to be simple aren't well equipped to deal with the real world.

Like gas prices, for example. It was so simple when gas prices were going up. All we had to do was blame Obama.

When gas prices go down, simple people can't deal. Some of them try to link that to a slowing economy.... but when gas prices were going up, these same people sure weren't trying to link that to a growing economy, were they?

No, of course not. That's a clear-cut example of cognitive dissonance.

[genglandoh]

http://www.GasBuddy.com/gb_retail_pr...aspx?city1=USA Average&city2=&city3=&crude=n&tme=3&units=us

Down nearly 40 cents per gallon in two months of continuous decline.

Remember when all the conservatives were freaking out? The seem kinda silent now.

I am a conservative and I am happy gas prices are dropping.
I also think lower gas prices will help the economy and help Obama in the election.