Originally posted by: conehead433
Originally posted by: Naustica
Election time is coming up.
Yep , and the Repugs know that gas prices being lower is one of the only ways they can get re-elected, especially with there being no chance of a troop withdrawal in Iraq with the idiot chimp in control.
That would be something to see, Election trumping storms and wars.
So it starts:
8-25-2006
Oil climbs toward $73 on U.S. Gulf storm worry
Oil prices climbed toward $73 on Friday as another storm brewed in the Caribbean with the potential to reach the Gulf of Mexico next week, creating worries over U.S. production already trimmed by an outage in Alaska.
A spinning band of squalls in the southeastern Caribbean was on the verge of becoming Tropical Storm Ernesto by Friday, expected to head northwest toward the Gulf of Mexico by the middle of next week, forecasters said.
"Traders have turned their focus from comfortable inventory levels in the U.S. to storm activity out in the Atlantic," said Tobin Gorey of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.