It was late July back in 2006, back when gas cost around $3.00 a gallon, that a miracle happened! Suddenly, the price of gas dropped precipitously. From around $3.00 to $2.50 and stayed there for months... until just after Christmas in fact.
I wonder why that happened? Hmmmmmm. There has to be a reason. This is capitalism after all. What happened in that period?
Oh right, the mid-term elections! The Republicans were getting their asses whipped and suddenly, miracle-like the price of gas dropped like a stone!. And everyone from George Bush on down to the CEO of Exxon (it's not like anyone else matters, anyway) assured us that the two events had nothing in common. (And of of curse no one at the time noted that this amounted to a massive, un-regulated donation to the Republican party.)
So it's going to be nice towards the end of this summer, as the news is full of the glories and unimpeachable integrity of John McCain and his super-qualifying Vietnam war service, as well as the incessant flip-flops, lies, verbal gaffes, and general pathetic incompetence of Barack Obama and the latest Democratic surrenders to the mighty, mighty will of George W. Bush (hey who knows, by that time the Dems may have simply cravenly given George everything he could possibly ever ask for so they'll just be spending their time running around picking up his suits at the cleaners, detailing his cars and cleaning his bathroom with their toothbrushes), that we will be able to enjoy a gas price holiday.
I figure that a mere 50-cent drop won't be enough this time, the oil companies are going to go all out and drop the price as much as unprecedented billions and billions and billions of dollars in wind-fall profits and tax "incentives" they have racked up in the past eight years will let them (secure in the knowledge that the Democrats will roll over and make up their loss by at least twice as much in tax breaks and free public land grants soon enough).
Is a drop of $1.50 a gallon too much to hope for? Maybe. But you can be pretty certain that gas will run in the $3.00 range until Obama is inaugurated. Then watch the gas prices soar!!!
And it will be all Obama's fault. The news will patiently explain that to us over and over and over.
Obama should be impeached by March. I'm sure Harry Reid will lead the impeachment charge.