Consumers skeptical of dropping gas prices

Well this is heartening - American's are skeptical! Starting to put two and two together. Do your homework - - gas prices fell before the 11/04 elections as well. We still have uncertainty in the middle east and we still have portions of the Alaskan Pipeline down for repair - which we were told might lead to an increase in gas prices....yet the prices are going down.

There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. motorists.

Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.

According to a new Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Bush administration "deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections." Fifty-three percent of those surveyed did not believe in this conspiracy theory, while 5 percent said they had no opinion.

Almost two-thirds of those who suspect President Bush intervened to bring down energy prices before Election Day are registered Democrats, according to Gallup.