Fuel Prices up 100% under Obama....

[Obama 2012 1,714]

This was the 'change' we could believe in?

[Ban Hammer 13,486]

the ones that were ranting for bush's head when it hit $3+ are mysteriously quiet.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Fuel prices up. Food prices up. Wars up.

Hope for change!

[Zero Sum 305]

What kind of intervention do you want to keep prices down?

If you do it yourself, keep those bike chains lubed.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

What kind of intervention do you want to keep prices down?

If you do it yourself, keep those bike chains lubed.

Open up every oil field on land and at sea. Open up all of Alaska. Drill off the coast of Cali. Allow unlimitted drilling in the gulf. Open up the oil shale deposits. We could supply all of our own oil in 5 years is we wanted to.

[mawilson 2,133]

Weren't they up 400% under Bush?

I remember when gas was under a buck back in 1999 and even as recently as 2003.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

This was the 'change' we could believe in?

Pulling numbers out of you hat?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Pulling numbers out of you hat?

No, he isn't pulling numbers out of you hat.

Gasoline up 100% under Obama

Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/30/gas-prices-double-under-obama/

[Zero Sum 305]

Open up every oil field on land and at sea. Open up all of Alaska. Drill off the coast of Cali. Allow unlimitted drilling in the gulf. Open up the oil shale deposits. We could supply all of our own oil in 5 years is we wanted to.

Yeah, that being an extremely optimistic estimate and all and then you'd be off foreign oil for how long? Drill baby drill doesn't quite cut it.

Weren't they up 400% under Bush?

I remember when gas was under a buck back in 1999 and even as recently as 2003.

Thank you for providing historical context. Some memories conveniently forget.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Weren't they up 400% under Bush?

I remember when gas was under a buck back in 1999 and even as recently as 2003.

Gas was about 1.79 when Bush left office. So it was up around 70%.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Yeah, that being an extremely optimistic estimate and all and then you'd be off foreign oil for how long? Drill baby drill doesn't quite cut it.

We would be off foreign oil for long enough to develope alternates to oil. Right now we don't have any alternatives even if we wanted to stop using oil. The choice is to spend huge amounts of money buying oil from other countries and at the same time spend huge amounts of money to develope an alternative or we can use our own oil and spend the money we save on developement of alternative fuel. Which sounds better to you?

[Zero Sum 305]

Gas prices last 6 years:

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Edited April 1, 2011 by Zero Sum

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

They're up all over the world. So what?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

They're up all over the world. So what?

What, is the fact that we still don't have a energy policy that will help. None was developed under Bush and none has been developed under Obama.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Gas prices last 6 years:

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Gas Prices Last 6 years

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Opps, you fixed it.

Edited April 1, 2011 by JohnSmith2007