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Originally Posted by Relentless
Yes, I looked at the statistics and posted them. You looked at his opinion about the statistics. One is a set of a facts, the other is his personal point of view about those facts. Can you determine which is which? I fully agree politicians do not change gas prices.... I never said they did. The tools available to them would be far too easy for outsiders to notice. What I said, is that the Energy sector changes gas prices to suit their political interests by keeping incumbents in office rather than having to buy new ones or risk a rare independent voice getting elected. That remains... true.
Price is dictated by 'whatever they say supply is' and 'whatever they claim demand is' with a lapdog Congress overseeing it.
They like their lapdogs and know how to keep them on their laps.
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correlation does not equal causation.
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do you understand what that means? but again, you have zero proof to back up the preposterous claim that midterm elections are manipulated intentionally by exxon et al changing global oil prices to impact local gas prices because that's cheaper than taking a new incumbent to lunch to get him on the dole.
it also assumes each and every current incumbent is on the dole with exxon et al and doing their bidding, again preposterous.