Are oil companies lowering gas prices so that people vote McCain so they don't get heavily taxed by Obama?

Bill, both you and Rick are arguing the same point. The increased taxes will come OUT of the private sector, whether from the consumer or the corporation (and thus the shareholders, which are you and me), and feed the federal government. They will not contribute to the common good.

They will not pay down the debt. They will contribute to the ever expanding leviathan. Worse, they will change people's behavior.

People will drive less, take less vacations, spend less money on things other than gas. Folks - look up the "Broken Window" fallacy.

Funny thing about unfair loopholes - when they are closed the beneficiary of those former loopholes pays more in taxes. But the other funny thing is that now they are paying the same tax as everyone else, not lining their pockets at public expense. No - Oil prices won't soar.

They will go up and down on demand and supply curves as they have done for about 100 years (and adjusted for inflation the price of gas is about the same as it was 100 years ago). The cheapest gas ever (adjusted for inflation) was during the Clinton era of the 1990's. That had to do with high production quotas from Opec along with relative peace and stability in the middle east.

Prices so low then that American producers did not even bother. The boom in domestic oil production is directly related to today's higher prices. The price is high enough to spend the extra money to squeeze oil out of depleted wells and unconventional sources like shales and sands.

So if you want to increase American jobs and increase American oil production you better hope prices don't fall. But their tax bill will have nothing to do with it.

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