{"id":17,"date":"2022-10-01T01:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:42:04","slug":"manipulating-gasoline-prices-for-political-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/manipulating-gasoline-prices-for-political-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating Gasoline Prices for Political Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inspired by a meme stating something to the effect that reductions in gas prices being a conspiracy to make people vote a certain way, I decided to pull some gas price data (source: https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm<\/a>) and play with it a bit. There were a few interesting things in there. First: it appears to be about a fair coin flip as to whether gasoline prices will even trend down leading up to November during an election year. Second: it’s about the <\/a>same for non-election years. Third: outside of 2022, the only months when prices were above $4.00\/gallon were June and July of 2008 (not related to the original claim, but interesting nonetheless).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also interesting is that the dip after 9\/11 is about the fifth largest since 1993, with the bigger ones coming later, and the largest being from September 2008 to December of the same year. Also of interest: the last time the average was below a dollar was in February of 1996 ($0.96\/gallon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, there are some follow-ups to the original meme even without looking at the data, such as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Who controls the gasoline prices in each party?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Is it just one person, or is the party that controls Congress have a say?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What happens when the party in control of Congress is not the party of the president?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By what mechanism are the prices being controlled?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What are we to make of increasing being consistent around the globe?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…and I’m sure many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/glenn1364\/viz\/GasPriceTrends\/GasPriceTrendsbyYearOverYear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by a meme stating something to the effect that reductions in gas prices being a conspiracy to make people vote a certain way, I decided to pull some gas price data (source: https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm) and play with it a bit. There were a few interesting things in there. First: it appears to be about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}