Has anyone noticed this disturbing trend on Congress and oil?

Question

Has anyone noticed that the price of oil goes up significantly while Congress is in session, yet it falls dramatically when it's not in session?

Look at these graphs to prove my point:

http://www.gaspriceprotest.com/images/price_chart.jpg

http://www.factcheck.org/demos/factcheck/imagefiles/Image/Ask%20FactCheck%20Images/Dems_Crash_Economy/gas_prices.JPG

http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/limbaugh-20080513-lg.jpg

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/mogas_chart.gif

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_chart.gif

The months that don't have Congress in session typically fall, yet the ones that do have them in session, the price goes significantly up. Does anyone else find this odd, if not disturbing?

Answer 1

By our Congress dwiddling in everything................they totally s***w things up.  This has been going on for quite a few years.  THEY HAVE NO CLUE AT THE DEVASTATION THEY ALONE HAVE CAUSED.  Time to vote them out of office.

Answer 2

Thank you Nancy Pelosi -- the queen of the do-nothings

Answer 3

Cut and Run Congress

Answer 4

Well... one thing is indisputably true.. the price has gone steadily up from the time that the Democrats got the majority on 06

Answer 5

Yeah.  It also coincides with the winding down of summer driving season.  Happens every August.  Kids back to school.  Congress takes off to shake down the contributors for the upcoming November elections.  Just because events occupy the same time frame doesn't assure a direct cause/effect.  My heating bill goes down in August, too, when Congress is out of session.

Answer 6

Definitely disturbing... I also agree with the post above...Nancy Polosi the queen of the do-nothings is the main cause.  Look what happens when she doesn't get her way.  She makes the rest of us pay.