Well then, by all means, stay there and keep talking.

no no no, credit just cannot go to the republicans for the drop in gas prices.

Because they have NOTHING to do with the price of gas or oil dropping. It’s, as has been noted upthread, simple supply and demand. When the price of something goes up to the point where large portions of the populace can’t afford it, demand drops. When demand drops, then so does the price of the commodity in question. This is basic macro-economics. A bunch of whiney, obstructionist bloviating warthogs yammering about something that is nothing but yet another give away to big oil is the solution to NOTHING!

Sorry republicans, I know that you are still in session even in the face of pelosi and the democraps running away from a vote that would help us end our energy crisis. So, while many republicans are forgoing vacation and still debating the energy issue thus “doing the work of the people”, pelosi and her minions are enjoying 5 weeks of vacation while the average american is still paying 4.00 per gallon. Go figure. Thanks Nancy!!!

Drilling off the coasts of the US (including ANWR) would do absolutely NOTHING to lower the price of oil or gas today (or much in 10 years for that matter). First, it’s 10 years to get the oil to market if the oil companies even decide to actually drill on the new leases (rather than leveraging them as assets when dealing with their other global customers like China and India which they’ve already done with the hundreds of acres that we’ve already given them in Alaska). Second, and more importantly, the entire premise of drilling saving consumers money is predicated on the fact that the oil companies will pass the savings (read as: windfall profits) on to the consumer. They have a long-established track record of doing exactly the opposite! What makes you think that they’ll decide to become altruistic now? To your “vacation” dig at the Dems in Congress, how many days of vacation did the 109th Congress take? Oh yeah, they worked a total of 97 days and what did they do to solve this issue in that 97 days (and this was a crisis then as well)? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is what they did about it because there was no political hay to make from it. This is political theatricality of the worst sort!

No folks, the real driver behind the drop in prices was our socialist savior Obama who suggested that we just fill our tires with air. Just keep air in your tires folks, and watch the prices continue to drop.

Obama had nothing to do with the drop in prices either but then he never claimed, unlike these Republican Congressmen, that he did have anything to do with it. And, moron, ensuring that your tires are properly inflated has long-ago been proven as an easy and efficient means of improving a car’s mileage. Even the auto manufacturers agree this is a good idea (and Sen. McCain conceded that point yesterday also in case you hadn’t noticed.)

yeah right! So Barack, when can I expect to receive my free, government issued, tire gauge?

Wouldn’t you rather buy one with a childish and inaccurate political slogan on it from John McCain for $25.

In a dramatic revolt against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) refusal to allow Congress to vote on legislation to increase American-made energy and lower gas prices, House Republicans today refused to leave the House floor after Speaker Pelosi adjourned the House for the five-week August break, staying in the chamber to speak directly to Americans watching the historic event unfold above the floor in the House gallery.

It wasn’t Nancy Pelosi who voted against cloture on at least 6 amendments to the energy bill that would have addressed this issue sensibly, it was these same Republicans who are now grandstanding in order to score some cheap political points and deflect from the fact that your selection to be the next leader of the free world can’t remember how he voted last week and is, essentially, losing his mental faculties in front of our very eyes.

Censorship is for those who cannot handle the truth, TP!!!

What censorship are you referring to? We have a system here whereby individuals who lend nothing to the conversation are voted off the island by the community. You don’t get flagged because we don’t share your ideology, you get flagged because you spew your ideology without any thought for things like fact or staying on topic.

Perhaps you should do some homework about how simple economics works in the global market before you start spewing nonsense about solving a crisis that was manufactured by your side of the aisles’ malfeasance and the greed of the oil companies. The simple reality is that we could easily have $40 a barrel oil again but we never will because Exxon Mobil and BP and Chevron wont sacrifice any of their largesse (which is earned on our backs) and your Reps and Sens wont ever crawl out of their pockets.

If you truly think the Republicans are working for the people, well I guess then Iraq really did attack us on 9/11, that Saddam had WMDs aimed at NYC, which were fast enough to strike within 45 minutes, and that drilling in ANWR will bring down the price of gas to a dollar a gallon…

you’re too much!

Another factor is that a rising element will often overshoot the mark and then correct to the level which it passed by. So the drop of 20 cents a gallon could just be correcting the overshoot.

Another factor is that simple economics state that when prices rise too much, people back off from using the product. This naturally leads to a higher supply/demand. Just raise the cost of a soda to $ 50 a can and see if folks stop buying it.

In short, nothing magical here at all.

Please don’t tell me that you are believing the polls. They are being rigged to make it look like it really is a horse race. The pollsters and the MSM don’t want this to look like a cake walk for Obama because that will cost them money. It’s in their best interest to “cook the books” on this race and make it look like it’s closer than it really is.

Why don’t you go out and find the places that are polling the states and compiling probably electoral college votes. They all have Obama beating McCain handily.

Between their “theater of the absurd” on the floor of Congress to McCain running around shouting about inflating tires, they are looking like a bunch of clowns. Oh well, all the better for us in November.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PRESIDENTIAL_RACE_AP_POLL?SITE=RIPAW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Any comment?

We may not like advertising, slogans and marketing; but we are going to have to get with it. Their tactics disrupt our message, diminish our credibility and reduce our chances of winning. If the Republicans are right about Democratic elitism, it would be in one area, i.e. our dismissal of the necessity to conduct retail politics.

It’s also interesting to note that if they were correct, they would then be admitting just how much speculation is playing a role in the price of gas, speculation that’s in large part due to the changes in rules brought about by the Bush administration.

http://progressiveworldreview.com

George Bush suddenly stopped his saber-rattling and sent a diplomatic envoy to Iran several weeks ago, and the drop in oil prices was almost instantaneous. It took another two weeks of falling oil prices to reflect that decrease at the pump.

Here in Houston, in 2006, the price of regular unleaded steadily fell for months just to just $1.99/gal the day of the November election. The next day, gas prices began to rise again.

If you look back at the timeline, the price of oil started to fall *before* the Republican theatrics and *after* Bush’s Iran envoy.

-randi rant (paraphrased mostly)