TV news reporters love to interrupt folks at the gas pump when prices are going up, but never when prices are going down. When fuel prices are dropping, we don't get to hear a driver gushing about how she'll take her kids out to eat with the money she's saving.
Jammie Wearing Fool also obsesses about pumpside interviews, and notices a new trend:
Recall back a couple of years ago when gas prices rose precipitously. It was 24/7 news. You couldn't escape it. Live remotes from the gas pumps. Stories of how people were reduced to choosing between gas and food, gas and medicine, they had to eat dog food because gas was so high, it was Bush's fault, the greedy oil barons were conspiring to get us all, blah blah blah. An endless cacophony of gloom and doom.
I've recently noticed gas prices climbing quite a bit since I drive so much. Curiously, however, I never see any stories on the news about the rise in prices. Funny how that is when the Democrats are in charge.
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