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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My post was in response to a post from numbskull that showed gas prices rising sharply since 9/11. ole no brains then made the conclusion that Clinton sure could manage gas prices. i was simply pointing out that it seems 9/11 might well have been the cause of change in gas price, although certainly including the President's responses.
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For you to have a chance with Eva, you need to learn to read a graph.
The price actually dipped after 9/11. It then rose in the run-up to the invasion, dipped after it appeared we were "successful" and has more or less been rising steadily since it became apparent we were not as successful as we had thought. Worldwide demand has been relatively constant (despite what we here about India and China drinking all our oil), and supply has not changed. Regional instability boosts the futures prices for oil, which are reflected immediately in the price you pay at the pump. W has increased regional instability in a region that has never been all that stable in the first place.
