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[coyotedave]

Gas and heating oil prices have fallen this month. I can imagine three possible reasons...

1. The word is out, there's a new sheriff in town.
2. Nobody wants to kill the ox.
3. Oil companies have had good production and they'd like to pass the savings onto their customers.

Comments

[roseseule]

Or, as it usually happens, they lower gas prices before an election so that they can "fly under the radar" during the final weeks before an election.

[coyotedave]

I recall just before GW got elected, the prices started going up.

[roseseule]

The year before, they did, but about a month and a half before they did, they dropped for about three months. I ONLY remember it because it was one of the things that went into my friend closing his comic shop...heat and transportation costs doubled and he couldn't find a way to boost his profits by the same amount to cover it.

It all comes back to comic books in my mind.

[coyotedave]

Ah!

Yeah, selling comic books was all about low overhead.