Not even a day later ..and already I've seen a 15 cents spike.. but its not bush fault. It's supply-demand....

If Bush could lower and raise oil prices at will, why wouldn't he just come on TV and say "If you vote for Republicans, I'll drop gas prices by a dollar per gallon" and then do it for a few days to prove that he had this power?

And, what exactly do you think it is that he does to control the oil prices? Does he have a knob that he turns with readings from say $1.00 to $5.00? Does he have to make a phone call and have someone else do it? Does he hop on AF1 and go negotiate with Hugo Chavez and the Arabs?

The problem with your argument is that it's a logical fallacy. Concurrency doesn't imply causation. For instance, I could make the case that our elections happened yesterday because of oil prices and have an argument equally logically valid to yours (assuming, of course, that we left it at that).

If you're going go demonstrate that one thing cause another, you have to offer proof beyond the fact that they happened sequentially (or close together). If it's raining every time I leave my house, am I causing rain somehow?

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You're exactly right ... too bad you didn't do any research:

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If you a person who reads and listens to the news, you would have read around a month ago that one of the OPEC countries (I think Saudi Arabia) was going to curtail production to drive up the prices. Hardly Bush's doing.

Kramer

Funny, gas dropped a little lower here.

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Lt. Gov Diane Denish on Bill Richardson "The governor, she said, "pinches my neck. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg."

Well I think it was Bill Frist who was saying the lowering gas prices were due to the enegy bill congress passed last year. Guess he was full of shit.

Also I wouldn't underestimate the power of the government to manipulate oil prices. I'll let you read the article and judge for yourself.