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Do you feel that it is coincidental that gas/fuel prices are falling as we approach National elections?
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- MuttLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Labor Day is the end of the summer traveling season, and demand goes down causing the price to go down. Labor Day also happens to be the start of the political campaign season.
Coincidence? Yes. Gas prices are going down GLOBALLY, not just in the U.S.
- PandakLv 51 decade ago
Coincidental means that there is no relationship between the elections and the falling prices, it just happened that way...Sure, and if you believe that I have some property...
- profit0004Lv 51 decade ago
Market forces determine fuel prices..
See the American Mercantile Exchange.
Oil companies actually have little to no say over prices suprisingly.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
They go down every fall , not just election years :
1. less demand
2. summertime chemical additives are expensive and they come out this time of year