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ClydeR
03-18-2012, 03:32 PM
This is the first time I've heard one of the candidates accuse Obama of intentionally raising gas prices. From his appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, which follows six appearances by Romney's on Fox News last week..


BAIER: Governor, obviously, volatility in the Middle East affects oil prices. Do you believe President Obama is to blame for high gas prices?

ROMNEY: Well, there's no question. But when he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gasoline price go up. He said that energy prices would skyrocket under his views, and he has selected three people to help him implement that program. The secretary of energy, the secretary of interior and EPA administrator.

And this gas hike trio has been doing the job over the last three and a half years, and gas prices are up. The right course is they ought to be fired because the president is apparently suffered election year conversion. He's now decided that gasoline prices should come down.

While the gas hike trio is going in the other direction, time for them to go, probably hand in their resignations if he's really serious about and start drilling for energy here. That's, of course, our oil, our natural gas, take advantage of our coal resources for power generation. It's a very different policy that he's now talking about, and I hope it's a real conversion. Time will tell.

More... (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/2012/03/18/mitt-romney-talks-afghanistan-iran-2012-race-george-clooney-brings-attention-war-torn-sud?page=1)

Parkbandit
03-19-2012, 09:23 AM
This is the first time I've heard one of the candidates accuse Obama of intentionally raising gas prices. From his appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, which follows six appearances by Romney's on Fox News last week..

There are quotes from people in the Administration that the best way for us to reduce our dependency on oil would be to have our gas prices mirror those of Europe.

If the intention is to reduce our dependency on oil.. through prices, EPA regulations, decreasing the number of federal oil leases approved and heavy investment into "green" technologies.. it looks like their goal is being achieved.

ClydeR
03-19-2012, 11:08 AM
Using the historical gas price charting tool at GasBuddy.com (http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx), I made this chart showing gas prices during the Bush and Obama administrations.

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo166/rmi08a/Gas.png

As you can see, the highest prices on record were in the summer of 2008, when President Bush obviously intentionally raised gas prices to stop McCain from getting elected.

~Rocktar~
03-19-2012, 10:37 PM
As you can see, the highest prices on record were in the summer of 2008, when Liberal/Leftist news media obviously intentionally raised gas prices to stop McCain from getting elected.

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