Suppose that consumers expect that gas prices will increase next week after viewing a highly publicized news report predicting higher gas prices. However, producers do not believe the news reports and they do not believe that consumers will believe the reports either. In this week's gasoline market, the most likely market response is that
A. both supply and demand will remain the same.
B. supply will decrease and demand will stay the same.
C. supply will stay the same and demand will decrease.
D. supply will stay the same and demand will increase.
E. the equilibrium quantity demanded will decrease and the equilibrium quantity supplied will remain the same
