Saw this somewhere, I'm not sufficiently motivated to provide a link.
Quote:
A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted last weekend found that 42 percent
of the roughly 1,000 adults surveyed nationwide said they believed the
Bush administration had 'deliberately manipulated the price of
gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections,' "
the New York Times reports:
Tangible reasons cited for the dip in prices include the end of
the Israeli-Hezbollah war, which had raised tensions across the Middle
East. Also, forecasts of a severe hurricane season that could disrupt
oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico have not, so far, panned out.
So in an election year, the Bush administration is able to stop
hurricanes. We guess the president likes winning even more than he
hates black people. Of course, the New York Times might have
anticipated that, as the Associated Press notes, "cooler ocean
temperatures" this year would lead to fewer hurricanes and thus
cheaper gasoline. But instead they suppressed this news! Can there be
any doubt that the Times's editors are taking orders from Karl Rove
himself?
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