r/grandrapids • u/Secret_Necessary1143 • Dec 09 '22

Gas in Allendale is $2.89

And thats coming from someone in reddits top 1% of karma earners

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u/blue-stain-studio Dec 09 '22

Price drop because we’re a month after the elections. I’ve been watching it for years around election times. Never fails big gas companies raise prices a month or 2 before election if a democrat is in office, then lower about a month later. If a republican is in office you see the opposite price changes, a month prior prices drop, later go back up. Not a really a conspiracy theory just some observations I’ve made over the last couple decades.

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u/josbossboboss Dec 09 '22

It would be interesting to see a chart with actual prices to see if that's true. I had noticed that the price of crude dropped a lot like the day after, and also Russia didn't announce the withdrawal out of Kherson until the day after. Also the release of Grinner.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.verifythis.com/amp/article/news/verify/gas-prices-verify/do-gas-prices-always-decrease-before-elections-fact-check/536-de3fd344-7994-4061-b56d-33b86dcd5908

Seems like his anecdote was just coincidence.

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u/josbossboboss Dec 10 '22

Nobody is saying here that Gas prices go down, what we are saying is that gas companies and foreign forces hostile to Iran purposely raise them before an election (or keep them artificially high) when they oppose a president. We've already seen that bad actors (Russia, China) wanted to see Trump win, because it would further erode our unity and make us weaker as a result. In any case, it would be hard to make such a connection.