Tin Foil Hat Award for 2006

[sirs]

Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories
— CBS Evening News, October 16. As Mason spoke, the camera zoomed in on the driver’s bumper sticker, "GOP: Grand Oil Party."

Anchor Katie Couric: "Gas is the lowest it’s been all year, a nationwide average of $2.23 a gallon. It hasn’t been that low since last Christmas. But is this an election-year present from President Bush to fellow Republicans?"
Reporter Anthony Mason: "...Gas started going down just as the fall campaign started heating up. Coincidence? Some drivers don’t think so."
Man in a car: "And I think it’s basically a ploy to sort of get the American people to think, well, the economy is going good, let’s vote Republican."
 

[Michael Tee]

Now the idea that Big Oil supports Republicans and might lower gas prices temporarily to help them through an election is a "crazy conspiracy theory."

Oy.

[BT]

Gas prices are lower now than during the run up to the fll elections.

Go figure.

[Plane]

Now the idea that Big Oil supports Republicans and might lower gas prices temporarily to help them through an election is a "crazy conspiracy theory."


Big Oil does not consider Democrats to be opposition MT.

Who handles oil in Canada?

[Michael Tee]

<<Big Oil does not consider Democrats to be opposition MT.

<<Who handles oil in Canada?>>

The Alberta government, mostly.  And the Newfies too.  Not us Ontarians, that's for God-damn sure.

And BTW, plane, my point wasn't that Big Oil WAS manipulating the price for their Republican buds, just that there was nothing all that crazy about the idea that they might be.