Your right. It's just like how when Greenspan speaks about the economy, it usually has zero effect on stocks or anything like that.Things could be going just peachy for the economy but as soon as Greenspan says there is going to be some gloom and doom, then it immediately makes the economy and stocks go straight back in the shitter.(I'm obviously being a sarcastic asshole

Sorry jdelpi, I'm not trying to be a dick)
Another example is when the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia got a terrorist threat and had to close recently. The media jumped on that story and said that it was going to make gas prices go up and sure enough, they did. Nothing bad happened. No oil rigs were destroyed. Oil production never halted. NOTHING. So if that story never made it to the media do you think the prices would have still went up? Kinda like the old "If a tree fell in the woods....

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I agree, that there is a gas shortage right
now, but to think that what is said on television or radio has no effect on gas or it's prices, is just plain silly.The same thing can be said on just about everything. Media is a very powerful and persuasive tool. If people are told there is going to be a shortage...Guess what happens?
Everyone rushes out to fill their cars up, which causes the shortage.
FYI: to all the guys in Michigan. I just got a state employee email from the governor, saying that the gas is going down to $2.99. I guess she made some ageement with the local gas owners. So thats some pretty good news.