Surprise, Surprise…Gas Prices On The Rise
November 17th, 2006 | by Ken Grandlund |Falling gasoline prices leading up to the mid-term elections were viewed with some skepticism by consumers who surmised that voter anger over high gas prices were being manipulated for political reasons. As the election got closer, gas prices kept falling. Many believed that once the elections were over that gas prices would again edge higher. I can include myself among those who watched gas price fluctuations through jaded eyes.
Big surprise…we were right. Just 10 days have passed since the Democrats defeated Republicans in both the House and Senate, and gas prices have resumed their upward climb.
Here.
Here.
Here.
And here.
And yet strangely, crude oil prices are at their lowest levels in 17 months.
Naturally, industry reps trot out the same tired excuses about supply shortages, refining capacity, and the like. It’s all bullshit though and we know it. In trying to help their political benefactors, the oil companies have shown us their true colors, at least, shown those who didn’t already know what these folks were all about.
Greedy. Bastards. All of them.
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12 Responses to “Surprise, Surprise…Gas Prices On The Rise”
By SteveIL on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
ken,
You’re funny. And wrong. But at least you’re funny.
By ken grandlund on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
Please, SteveIl, enlighten the rest of us with your explanation…oh wait, I’ll do it for you.
It’s all about supply and demand. Never mind that gasoline supply and demand hasn’t fluctuated nearly as much as the pump prices. Never mind that crude prices are falling. Never mind that refining capacity wasn’t hampered by natural disasters this year. It’s a simple supply and demand issue.
Oh, and I have a nice piece of property in Southern Louisiana you might be interested in buying…
By Tom Harper on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
Oil prices going back up after the election?? Shocking! And here I was thinking oil executives had discovered a new inner sense of decency and honesty.
Obviously we need to get those damn treehuggers out of the way so we can drill for every last drop of oil in our national forests, coastlines, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries…
By SteveIL on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
No, Tom. Gas prices are rising. Oil prices are not.
ken, you’re three newspaper links explain it. It’s been going on for years, even before Bush. But I noticed you also linked to a Huffpo loony, whom you are parroting. You may need to get your own material.
And thanks for the land offer, but I’m not interested. I’ve got a bridge in Alaska, however…
By ken grandlund on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
I write what I think, SteveIl, and I credit that which I cite. The links were supporting articles regarding rising gas prices. I have plenty of my ‘own material’ thank you. That others see and think as I do does not mean I mimic them or they mimic me, but rather that we can see through the haze of corporatist bullshit.
By Froenx on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
I got beat up by a person who stated they worked in the oil industry, telling me the low prices are here to stay.
I’ve been on this planet close to thirty years. One thing I have seen is a connection between gas prices and world events. If one has not mad that connection, then one has his eyes riveted shut.
By SteveIL on Nov 18, 2006 | Reply
I’m with Froenx, oil prices and gas prices do share a connection with world events. But not manipulation by one of America’s two political parties. Believe it or not, it doesn’t work that way. Except for the conspiracy theorists.
By steve on Nov 18, 2006 | Reply
Ken, blaming gas prices falling then rising on the election is ludicrous. You should be considering it was refining shortages after Katrina that caused the price to go up in the first place.
But you have all the answers anyway because you are a liberal. Just blame Bush and all is okay right?
By Jersey McJones on Nov 18, 2006 | Reply
Only a fuckin drooling unread ignorant anti-intellectual intentionally sychophantic moron would think that the oil companies themselves wouldn’t manipulate prices for their own political gain. No “Party” has to do anything. Big Oil can do it for themselves. And only a stupid slobby smelly diseased fucked asshole wouldn’t know that. The bottleneck in American gas supplies - and that’s gas for cars, heaters, and for inhalation by unread ignorant anti-intellectual intentionally sychophantic moronic stupid slobby smelly diseased fucked assholes - is the limited and few REFINERIES, which are controlled by a handful of compaines in the pocket of Big Oil. Had the GOP won this election, which they couldn’t have even if Diebold had a gigantic super mass-mind-control device, prices would have stayed low for an extra month or so, and then gone up again. The good news is that prices will only go up so much now because the American public is sick to death of their profiteering and Big Oil knows that they can only raise prices so high and that they must be able to realistically lower them in ‘08 if they have any chance of controlling the White House in the future.
Oh, and like every other fucking thing that’s happened in the past few years, we Libs predicted this. Fuck you, stupid cons.
JMJ
By Liberal Jarhead on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
This was predicted by a lot of people. Especially ironic in California, where the oil industry was able to get the voters to reject a proposition that would have set up an extraction tax similar to that in other states by warning them that gas prices would go up if that tax came to pass. The proposition specifically forbade price increases to compensate for it, but they said in their ads they’d do it anyway. Funny, gas prices in California were already higher than in the states that did have the extraction tax anyway.
The good thing about it is that it will have the biggest impact on the people who jeer at environmentalism and drive SUVs and other gas hogs.
By Sam on Nov 20, 2006 | Reply
but over time, long term gas prices have got to go higher as gas is a fossil which is simply running out. as it runs out prices will increase