Posted: 01/10/2015 05:01:00 PM MST Gas prices are displayed at a gas station in Boston last week. (Steven Senne, The Associated Press) In Denver, gasoline dipped below $2 per gallon after Christmas, and I’ve heard rumors of $1.75. Most of us like this immensely. Not so the stock market, which has stumbled as oil prices have dipped below $50 per barrel. Cheap oil has also gummed up a variety of political arguments. Keystone XL is at the top of the news today, as it was last fall when many political candidates, from statehouse to Congress, ran on platforms seeking "energy security." This sounds suspiciously like code for giving drilling companies and pipeline transport companies just about everything they want. The argument on behalf of Keystone XL is that it will, with the help of the Canadians, deliver us from the capriciousness of "people who don’t like us," as […]