Rootsie

you can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500966.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500966.html)


Americans Skeptical About Gas Price Drop

By BRAD FOSS
The Associated Press
Monday, September 25, 2006; 6:41 PM

WASHINGTON -- There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. motorists.

Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.

I just drove from Minnesota to Vermont: the price was just about $2 a gallon in Minneapolis and Chicago, increasing all the way east till we hit New York and it's $3.