Gas prices in the US are heavily subsidized. There are direct payments to the refining companies (6-8 billion a year) but more so we spend so much in federal aid to oil producing countries to make sure that we get a much better price per gallon of oil. Fuel prices have little to nothing to do with a president (good or bad) and have everything to do with this nation building practice that we've entrenched ourselves in world wide.

$6-8 billion a year is piss-ant. Mostly what drives oil (and gas prices) is current extraction cost versus opportunity cost of leaving the oil in reserve. If long-term prices are expected to go up, current extraction will decreasing, driving current price up. If long-term prices are expected to go down, current extraction will increase, driving prices down. Current market expectation is that Obama will lose, new U.S. oil will come on stream (even if it is years away) so long-term expected prices are dropping, hence fall in current prices.

I guess I can go to a new forum

there's a proboard from like 2007 already
i made this instead: http://kdice.freeforums.org/

iF I PAY 3.93 IM A HAPPY CAMPER

sorry, my kitten (his name is samson) hit the CAPS LOCK key.

I just paid 3.60 and that was with a 10 cent discount for being cute :P

Did you have a friend paying for it or something?

is it gas or a liquid? fuck you americans are stupid, next time you are filling up, pull the nozzle back a bit and see what it is ...

ohh kate, you are so very cute, well compared to a pitbull with a skin disease that needs to have a bucket on it's head, 10c a gallon discount for cute?, come on you had a docket thing ... and if you didnt it's the discount they give to everyone to feel good so they come back.

why is america still on gallons? oh yeh hang on it's the old english/imperial thing aye ... GROW up USA get with the program 50 years ago, metric is the way

nathan/hoe is spot on, you guys are so heavily funded on fuel it's providing you with a false economy, the ass has dropped out of everything else in the usa, whoever is in power 2013 will realise you cant keep it up and you guys will need to get used to real world prices of $1.50 - $2.50 a litre, ask a european, asian or south american what they pay

funding fuel keeps a lid on the whole economy, when you cant afford it anymore, .... well, you guys are the next greece, you guys and your major trades are in deep deep shit

ps i fucking know gas is short for gasoline .. is it?

pps $2.50/ltr is 9.37/gallon

lol kehoe