How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard
Monday, March 10, 2008 07:28 PDT

Presidential elections: They're a gas, gas, gas

How the World Works ventures outside of the blog to look at the interplay between gas prices and presidential elections.

Short version: John McCain really, really does not want to see four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline by summertime.

― Andrew Leonard

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