Reply #2: I agree. [View All]

[Andy823]

They jacked the prices up every year since Bush took office, and as bad as things looked for the election, they wanted to get their last big chance to screw the people in, just in case the republicans lost, and they did. Big oil companies have made a killing off of us, and so have the speculators. They had no regulations to stop them, and the regulations they did have were not enforced by the current administration. Big oil knows that the democrats are going to get tough on them, so did the speculators. The cost of oil, and thus the price of gas, has contributed greatly to the mess our economy, and the worlds economy, is in now. The greed of those responsible is beyond criminal, and they should be punished, though they never will.

Another reason I think prices are going down is that if oil becomes cheap, and gas follows, there will be no incentive for alternative fuel sources to be developed, at least that's what the hope. We need to show them they are wrong, and we need to push renewable sources to the front. Wind, sun, bio fuels that do not take away food crops, and any other new sources need to be pushed by Obama and congress so that we don't go through this all over again down the road.

I think you may be right about it happening before Clinton took office, same reason, so no new sources would be pushed ahead of oil, but I am not really positive on that. My memory is not as good as it once was either!