So gasoline prices have come down and people are happy again — just in time for the mid-term election.
What a stroke of luck for the oil companies!
What a further stroke of luck it would be if prices then went back up after the election.
Of course, there’s that old expression about “making your own luck.” But only a cynic would suggest that oil companies have any influence over the price of gasoline.
Or that, even if they did, they would ever try to use their influence to help the Administration retain unchecked power (other than with political contributions, which thus far in 2006 exceed $12.5 million, 83% to Republicans).
[Update: Here’s a chart tracking gasoline prices and Bush’s popularity.]