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Originally Posted by Elphaba
And you thought this was Paranoia because?
ASU2003, this is a legitimate question that you could have posted in General or Politics. There is nothing at all paranoid about a question regarding the manipulation of gas prices.
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It is still a theory at this point. I had started to put it in politics, but decided to put it here because going through all of the oil companies earnings reports, verses the oil consumed, and the price per barrel, and speculation and equipment upgrades rolled into the price, it is really hard to do anything more than just take a wild guess. The numbers are out there, but it is hard to tell if this is just a market correction and the oil companies decided to cut back on the amount of profits they were getting from 15% to 5 for no reason, let's say. Or if the people who have close races come Nov. just happen to be friends with the guys who run the oil companies, and they had to call in a favor to get them to reduce the price.
It will be even more interesting if the price goes up a lot right before Thanksgiving for some reason.