ALERT 6/16/08: Gas Prices to Plummet Today

Reps Udall (D-Boulder) and Perlmutter (D-Arvada) are speaking today at some gas station on 58th to discuss their solutions for today's high gas prices. They will be handing out a limited supply of rainbow slurpees and incinerated jalapeno cheese dogs and an unlimited supply of big oil blame and reiterations of "we can't drill our way out/to...".

Early indications are that together they will call for government-funded research into magic transporting amulets and perpetual energy fairy dust (potential Boulder County-based programs cut by the Bush administration).

Glad we waited to
fill up the H1

And though both have opposed various forms of inland and offshore exploration, sources in each camp verify that they will support a long-term lease agreement with the leprechaun who owns the rights to the land at the end of the rainbow. "He's green, a minority and covered by the ADA. Scoreboard!"

UPDATE 6/17/08: Crap, Gas Prices Still High

We are so pissed off. After such high hopes, all we got out of Reps Udall (D-Boulder) and Perlmutter (D-Arvada) was that gas prices were going to remain high and we need to be more fuel efficient. Eureka. No amulets, no fairy dust and the leprechaun was a no-show (emergency fundraising meeting w/ Hick & Ritter over lunch at the Palm).

The day was not a total waste of time. Besides the blackened weenies, we received a bonus economic education from spokesperson Tara Trujillo (London Sch. of Econ or University of Chicago? We have a staff bet, nothing on Wikipedia.) Seems that, despite evidence to the contrary (i.e. that gas prices are determined by a complex combination of world supply and demand, strength of the dollar, market speculation, costs and, oooh, profits), we are paying more than $4/gallon because Bob Schaffer once worked for Aspect Energy. (Shouldn't "Big Oil" at least entail that we've heard of them before?) Thanks professor.