txlonghorn
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There was nothing about my prior post that was false, yet you felt the need to reply to sanity with a joke.
TOXI has got a really bad memory...when Bush left office, gas was near or below 1.50 in most parts of the country. AND...we weren't driving the dollar below recoverable values. China didn't own us until well after the Obama transition team had moved into Whitehouse. The fuel price increase didn't come until after the first 100 days. And it didn't start going up until BO knew he had the bulk of the auto industry in his control. Gas prices are going back up because they renigged on the domestic oil exploration and forced our oil companies to shut down hundreds of offshore rigs for an emissions overhaul. I have relatives who are out of work because of that very thing.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCp6woQzU1g&feature=related]YouTube - Bush: $4 gas? "I hadn't heard that"[/ame]
And clearly you forget that the gas prices went over $4 per gallon while Bush was still president.
Are you implying that was Obama's fault back then as well?
No..I didn't forget...and sadly, your question doesn't even make sense....I thought we were having a pretty logical discussion up until now. Why would it be his fault? He wasn't in power then? My point is that oil prices dropped like a stone when we passed the domestic exploration initiative in November. Remember how prices came WAY down over the holidays? OPEC dropped prices because we cut back on consumption which gave us a huge surplus and then we started looking in our own backyard for oil. We have JILLIONS of barrels of oil right here, and they know it. Obama comes to Washington and cancels the domestic exploration which opens the path for OPEC to increase prices...decrease production which will soon force us back into a demand.