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Home Front: Politix
Tin-Foil Hat crowd suspicious about falling gas prices
2006-09-26
CONSPIRACY: Almost half of Americans think Republicans are manipulating the price before elections, poll says.

WASHINGTON - There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. left-wingnut motorists.
Who ya gonna believeÂ…some highfalutin analyst or a motorist with a 2004 Kerry/Edwards Bumpersticker?
Almost half of all Americans that were willing to waste their time taking this idiotic poll believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics. Retired farmer Jim Mohr of Lexington, Ill., rattled off a tankful of reasons why pump prices may be falling, including the end of the summer travel season and the fact that no major hurricanes have disrupted Gulf of Mexico output. "But I think the big important reason is Republicans want to get elected," Mohr, 66, said while filling up for $2.17 a gallon. "They think getting the prices down is going to help get some more incumbents re-elected."

According to a new Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Bush administration "deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections." Fifty-three percent of those surveyed did not believe in this conspiracy theory, while 5 percent said they had no opinion.
Almost two-thirds of those who suspect President Bush intervened to bring down energy prices before Election Day are registered Democrats, according to Gallup.
Shocked I tells yaÂ…who woulda thunk it?
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