No Wonder It’s Colder Out
By Mitch Berg
…the Strib’s letter of the day‘s IQ is above the outdoor temperature for a change:
On Sept. 19, 2006, a letter writer argued that President Bush influenced the price of gasoline, and that, after the elections in November, gas prices would rise above $3 per gallon.
I would like to quote from an article in the Jan. 10 Star Tribune: “The price of a gallon of gas has fallen to $1.98 at many Twin Cities stations for the first time since mid-February 2006.”
I have a question for the letter writer from September: Why is Bush moving the gas prices lower now?
Probably because I’m now busing to work.
But I digress. It’d be almost fun to hear Mike Malloy explain this on the air. Not that he could.
January 12th, 2007 at 9:56 am
“Perhaps you’d like to explain, not that you could, the variance in price at the pump”
I can! Its a dual coefficient calculation
Supply
AND
Demand
January 12th, 2007 at 10:34 am
As I’ve said before in this little ‘ole blog, Then candidate Governor George Bush made it a campaign point that he could influence the Oil producing countries. Remember? I believe the term he used was “jawbone”
I fail to see why it comes as any suprise that someone would suggest that Bush influenced gas prices. After all, a lot of people voted for him because he claimed the ability to do just that.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Here’s my jbauer imitation:
If one were to take into account the word count of my pointless twaddle, you’d easily see that the Bush administration, which I personally don’t think has anything to do with my obsessive/compulsive blog commenting disorder, still has the capability to influence, to some degree, the variance of the price at the pump.
You see, heretofore and notwithstanding, but not theretofore, but slightly wheretofore, it is beholden on us to hold accountable the dinosaurs of a bygone era that had the audacity to perish and dissolve into crude oil in some of the most inaccessible and inconvenient locales.
I submit that 75 percent of those dinosaurs, which I also call Bush-o-saurs, conspired to perish where they did in attempt to affect oil prices in the millions of years that transpired after their demise. Those dinosaurs were not stupid sauropods. They knew the ramifications of their oil-rich legacy and worked together to maximize future world strife through the calculated dispersement of their carcasses.
If you believe the monopoly oil companies enjoy today isn’t a direct result of the manipulative machinations of the dinosaurs of yore, you are far more niave’ (sic) than is Malloy.
In summation. . . oh, who am I kidding? I never sum up anything. Stay tuned for the next installment of my rambling, pointless blather.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:10 am
a lot of people voted for him because he claimed the ability to do just that
Oh yeah?
Name them!