How much did you pay for gas today?

$2.49

 

Down to $2.27 at my favorite filling station.

It'll be below $2 by Election Day.

 

That couldn't be by design, could it? I mean, the oil companies would never do that to the party that gave them all a huge tax break a couple of years back, would they?

 

I saw $2.16 yesterday. I will be stopping by that station to fill up later today.

16 gallon tank X 90 cents less than a month ago = $14.40 savings.

WHEW!!!!

 

Geez Slappy, why do you hate America so much?

 

Saw gas for $2.18 today.

I filled up a couple days ago at $2.29.

Funny how the prices are dropped as election season is heating up.

 

Got gas in Conroe, just north of Houston, for $2.29. While it's still too high, I've stopped complaining and stopped jabbing pins into the eyes of my voodoo dolls.

 

Don't prices always drop a bit once the summer driving season comes to an end? Plus the hurricane season being so quiet and Iran not being a bunch of buttholes lately makes the market quieter. Of course, it's a lot more fun to think of oil companies and politicians wearing monocles and doeskin smoking jackets while accepting martinis from house slaves, artifically setting prices to acede to whatever demand they have, but the truth is usually more boring.

 

Futures have been dropping all summer, futures for September crude were something like $2.30.

Speculators bid up the market during the spring for summertime crude, part of the reason for the spike.

 

Read on-line that the cheapest gas in America is in Iowa. Des Moines has the cheapest gas of any city in the country and it's as low as $2.03 in some towns around there.

 

Doesn't the E-85 have something to do with that?

 

That'd be my guess.