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Notice that prices dropped after 9/11, then returned to their pre-9/11 average, until we invaded, at which point prices skyrocketed, and have ever since.
Let me remind you of how quickly things have gone to hell. Gas prices averaged $1.60 a gallon in February 2003. Then Bush went to war in Iraq one month later, and prices have soared ever since. So there is a very real issue as to whether George Bush directly caused the doubling of gas prices in America. You can't blame September 11 for the increase beyond $1.60 - the $1.60 price was a good year and a half after September 11. And four months before September 11, gas prices were averaging $1.70 a gallon. And actually, gas prices fell in the months following September 11 - for example, gas prices averaged $1.24 a gallon six weeks after September 11. Thus, September 11 had no effect whatsoever on long-term (or even medium-term) gas prices. (source)Nothing else happened between February '03 and now that could explain such a leap; demand in China and India has increased, but not exponentially within two years' time. Prices doubled from Feb '03 to Sept '05 -- in 19 months. All of Bush's Texas buddies are wiping with $100 bills. Anyone who protests otherwise doesn't know the facts, or is too blinded by partisanship to care about the truth.
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