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Donate   • Morning Bell: 10 Ways to Lower Gas Prices      The
average price of a gallon of regular gas is now $3.66, and has
been decreasing for eight straight weeks. This is causing some
of the President Obama’s advisors to declare energy prices an
irrelevant issue. Political advisor David Axelrod recently
tweeted: “Gas prices have been going down for the past six
weeks. You think the GOP will blame the President?”      In
those six weeks, the only significant energy policy change at
the White House was to make new coal production nearly
impossible and thus vastly increase the cost of electricity. So,
it is hard to assign this slight dip to the president after a
record 75 straight weeks of prices exceeding $3.00. However, it
is true that the president is not entirely responsible for gas
prices.      Market and economic conditions play a large role.
With unemployment creeping back up, new global turmoil and
summer travel on the wane due to a sag