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WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:12 pm
by Stephen Eisel
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/ ... 5969.shtml(AP) Democrat Barack Obama on Friday blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies, his two rivals for the presidency included.
"The candidates with the Washington experience - my opponents - are good people. They mean well, but they've been in Washington for a long time and even with all that experience they talk about, nothing has happened," Obama said in remarks delivered at a gas station. "This country didn't raise fuel efficiency standards for over 30 years."
The result, the Illinois senator said, is that consumers are suffering.
"So what have we got to show for all that experience?" Obama asked. "Gas that's approaching $4 a gallon."
In the speech, Obama called for a windfall profits tax on oil companies, with the money used to help consumers pay utility bills. He also said middle-class tax breaks he's proposed would help families with energy costs.
What did Obama say last week???
U.S. President Barack Obama said that gas prices would remain high for the foreseeable future and that there’s “not much we can do” to bring them down.
Re: WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:54 pm
by sharon kinsella
Because Bush screwed up everything dude.
Re: WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:26 pm
by Stephen Eisel
sharon kinsella wrote:Because Bush screwed up everything dude.
I hope that Obamacare covers medication for Bush Derangement Syndrome... What was the price of gas per gallon when Bush left office?
Re: WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:42 am
by Jim DeVito
Did I miss the part where obama controls gas prices and not the free market?
Re: WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:59 am
by Stephen Eisel
Jim DeVito wrote:Did I miss the part where obama controls gas prices and not the free market?
That is not the intent of the post..
Re: WWOD on high gasoline prices?
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:33 pm
by ryan costa
we live in a democracy. it is political suicide to not tell voters we drive too much and have too much sprawl. both parties will say whatever they have to that isn't this.
oil is traded globally. it is bid up x many times by people with computers and cell phones around the world between when it is pumped out of the ground and when it gets to the refinery. I think it was Thomas Friedman who said something like, "this forces us to be the best we can be". or something.