The declining price of gasoline, that is.

Last Sunday’s New & Observer had an astoundingly silly cartoon indicating that the reason why gas prices have been falling is that Bush and Rove are manipulating them prior to the election.

Now I read that some leftist writers are arguing that falling gas prices just has to be another right-wing conspiracy. Check out this article at TCS, linking to some of the frenzied theorizing and giving the whole notion a pummeling.

Some people just can’t get past the idea that everything that happens must be caused by the decisions of particular people. The concept of spontaneous order is evidently incomprehensible.