I was over joyed last night when I filled up my tank for $2.03 a gallon in Texarkana. It is good to see it coming down. Now that summer is over, the process of making gas is being converted , and the demand for gas is lower, the barrel of oil (the main cost of a gallon of gas) is going down.
I love it how when the gas prices were high, unemployment was higher, the econmoy was in a slump, that Bush got all of the flack. Dems and libs aren't giving him any credit on the the work situation or the economy, but at least they are being consistent on the price of gas. They attribute the falling prices to Bush, but they state that he is using the price of gas to influence the elections. Bush can do nothing right in these peoples' eyes. Even though he has zero control over gas prices, he gets blamed when they are high and now that they are low he also gets blame and conspiracies. I remember a certain dinner argument over this exact issue. (Phynerk was there) Do the morons not know that the price of a barrel of oil is world wide. That gas prices are low around the entire world.
Now that the demand is low and the prices are falling we have THIS.
Nigeria and Venezuela plan to cut production amid OPEC concern about the rapid drop in prices, the OPEC countries say.
And this which is laughable:
Nigerian Oil Minister and OPEC President Edmund Daukoru has said the price of oil was "very low."
Low???!!!
I have read in a few places (no links) that they can make a healthy profit on oil when the price is at 40 dollars. These small piss-ant countries know that keeping the price of oil high is like kicking Wolfman in the nards when it comes to the United States economy. The funny thing is that our economy is so good that the high gas prices didn't slow us down that much. And all the while that OPEC is jabbing us, we have the 'hate America' crowd spreading their vitrial about Bush being a gas price controlling, torture loving Nazi who spies on our phone calls (And now is 'in Denial' thanks to loveable Bob Woodward)
The quicker America becomes more self sufficient and starts to actually projects her power and her passion for freedom, the quicker we can truly be the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
