Until +.20 jump yesterday for the holiday weekend. And when the local snooze called 'em up, they blamed the wholesalers -- and of course that was enough for the snooze! Make another phone call? Why bother!
I believe OPEC manipulates gas prices for profit and politics. They were very high a month ago, and they are now easing. They took in a lot of money. (I also believe OPEC has been smart enough over the years to have their fingers in ALL the various methods of making money from their oil, from pumping and selling by the barrel all the way to selling at the pump to speculating to selling short to whatever.)
They support Obama because Obama bows to the King of Mecca.
At the same time, they do want their profits, so they’ll incite ups and downs and bring prices down at opportune times to benefit their obedient obama.
I think this is obvious, but for others I’m tin foil and conspiracy 101.