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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Are lower gas prices a form of voting intervention?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Back at the end of May when gas was super high in Lawrenceville, I wrote a blog wondering: “Will we ever see $2 gas again?”
I remembered my father stuck in gas lines back in the 1970s and how they stretched down the block and around the corner. I said that just like prices dropped back then, $2 gas in Lawrenceville would be in our future.
After the blog posted, people wrote in and said, “Doubt it!” or “Not in this lifetime!”
Even my friends said I was wrong and that if anything, gas prices were headed higher.
These same friends later chastised me for buying an SUV over the summer. They equated this purchase to an environmental horror much like wearing a fur coat to a PETA convention.
So I take great personal pleasure today in spending only a buck and 95 cents per gallon.
I want to say, “I told you so!” and drive folks around in my vehicle with the new car smell that’s still existing.
Instead though, a portion of the American public wants to claim lower gas prices are due to governmental manipulation. Lower numbers at the pump are only due to next month’s upcoming elections, they say.
Personally, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth because filling up an SUV in July was pure torture. So, I accept these lower gas prices wholeheartedly and now consider Lawrenceville QTs my financial saviors.
Do you believe that lower gas prices are because of election-driven government manipulation? Or could it be that I was right when I said lower prices always come back in the future?
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