Oil Prices: Another Glaring Example of Liberal Hypocrisy

Buy a car that gets twice the gas mileage of whatever guzzler you're currently driving, and you'll effectively put your gas price back to 2 bucks a gallon.
 
Ads far as Bushs foreign policy, well, thats a double edged sword. I agree that the area is undergoing upheaval, how much did or does Iraq really have to do with that? Yemen is a mess due to AQ machinations outside any Iraqi influence, Oman same, Tunisia same, Egypt? same....food index prices probably have more to do with it ( ethanol anyone) and the inherent lack of representative gov. than iraq...*shrugs*. In the end I agree right now Obama has had only a slight effect on the overall price, however, each dollar that goes up and the longer we refuse to allow the gulf to reopen, well, that becomes problematic.

I don't even know. It's so complex for someone like me who is barely a functional literate in economics. Thinking about all those factors and how they add up just gives me a headache and makes me want to throw things out the window and hope it falls on an innocent pedestrian.
 
That's because it was Bush's fault. He invaded 2 separate countries and iniated some of the longest military actions in this nation's history.

And nothing President Obama has done caused oil prices to spike.

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The Iraq/Afgan wars are now the longest in American history and there appears to be no end in sight.

We are a stupid bunch!!!!!!

No end in sight?

Wow! That's way different than what Obama said when he promised he'd end the wars.
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It appears that when hell freezes over we will still have troops in Iraq/Afganistan.

Will this be Obama's fault? Yes! And those that come after him. As it was for those that came before.
 
Oil Prices: Another Glaring Example of Liberal Hypocrisy

Oil prices top $104 a barrel, highest since 2008

NEW YORK — Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel to end the week at a 29-month high, as fighting in Libya intensified and the world's largest petroleum consumer, the U.S., reported that employers added nearly 200,000 new jobs in February.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...l-friday_N.htm

when this happened under bush....you couldn't turn the channel or surf the net without hearing how this was all bush's fault. be it his ties to the oil companies or the undeclared wars in iraq and afghanistan (probably more iraq)....now....a dem president

i don't see or hear any blame thrown obama's way. the left was in an uproar the last time this happened. why the silence now? why does obama get a pass?

See if you can understand these facts:
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The Iraq/Afgan wars are now the longest in American history and there appears to be no end in sight.

We are a stupid bunch!!!!!!

No end in sight?

Wow! That's way different than what Obama said when he promised he'd end the wars.
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It appears that when hell freezes over we will still have troops in Iraq/Afganistan.

Will this be Obama's fault? Yes! And those that come after him. As it was for those that came before.

This is about the near future.
Screwed Again: America is not a class room at Princeton
 
Oil Prices: Another Glaring Example of Liberal Hypocrisy

Oil prices top $104 a barrel, highest since 2008

NEW YORK — Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel to end the week at a 29-month high, as fighting in Libya intensified and the world's largest petroleum consumer, the U.S., reported that employers added nearly 200,000 new jobs in February.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...l-friday_N.htm

when this happened under bush....you couldn't turn the channel or surf the net without hearing how this was all bush's fault. be it his ties to the oil companies or the undeclared wars in iraq and afghanistan (probably more iraq)....now....a dem president

i don't see or hear any blame thrown obama's way. the left was in an uproar the last time this happened. why the silence now? why does obama get a pass?

This is actually an example of a double standard, not hypocrisy

Its not just oil prices. Read these facts.
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That's because it was Bush's fault. He invaded 2 separate countries and iniated some of the longest military actions in this nation's history.

And nothing President Obama has done caused oil prices to spike.


You're right. Bush did nothing to cause most of the crap they threw at him. The question is not iwhether or not Bush deserved the blame. The question is why did Bush get the Blame while Obama does not.

Compare the Katrina and the Deep water drilling disaster. Not the actual events, but the way they were reported and the slant taken by the reporting. Try the statements of the opposition party's elite.

Finally, with the current crisis in oil pricing, please explain which party has done the most to restrict drilling and homeland oil production.

Isn't that what you and all the other anti-Obama crowd are doing here and everywhere else?

This has nothing to do with hedge funds. Here's the problem and solution.
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Whadya expect? When you vote a grown man into office who at the age of 46 had done absolutely nothing... this is what you get.
 
After oil recently hit $140/barrel, it plummeted to around $30 in a matter of months. We were still in Iraq and Afghanistan, so what gives?

It's a bit silly to argue an administration's effect on long-term oil prices, but its effect on domestic supply is another issue. Obama is attempting to set the stage to collapse the domestic oil and gas industry's ability to find hydrocarbons in this country. Up to $90 billion in new taxes is on the table, hydraulic fracturing is under attack, and the Gulf is still in limbo.

From the way you describe it, domestic production's future is, at worst, in limbo. How that future shapes up can definitely have an effect on future prices, but we'll have to wait to get there to see how it all goes down.

But the OP's suggestions are just dumb. He's wants people to cite Bush's actions as reasons Obama should be blamed for the current (and temporary) spike in oil prices. He suggests that failing to do so is somehow hypocrisy. But each man has to be held accountable only for his own actions.
 
Who stopped the drilling in the Gulf?

And do you have any evidence to suggest that anything Obama has done is actually contributing to the current spike in gas prices? By all accounts, the current spike is due to the situation in Libya, which is not something for which the President can be blamed.
 
Oil Prices: Another Glaring Example of Liberal Hypocrisy

Oil prices top $104 a barrel, highest since 2008

NEW YORK — Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel to end the week at a 29-month high, as fighting in Libya intensified and the world's largest petroleum consumer, the U.S., reported that employers added nearly 200,000 new jobs in February.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...l-friday_N.htm

when this happened under bush....you couldn't turn the channel or surf the net without hearing how this was all bush's fault. be it his ties to the oil companies or the undeclared wars in iraq and afghanistan (probably more iraq)....now....a dem president

i don't see or hear any blame thrown obama's way. the left was in an uproar the last time this happened. why the silence now? why does obama get a pass?



Obama gets a pass because the liberal left media that chose him for President and pushed him along the way will NEVER be critical of him.Bush got killed on a daily basis every time the price at the pump or the price for the barrel moved upwards one little bit.:eusa_hand:
 
Instability in the middle east causes higher oil prices.

People blamed Bush because he attacked a country which had nothing to do with 9/11. He did this in order to meet certain radical policy objectives that originated with a small cadre of people who falsely assumed Iraq could be redesigned into a client state like Saudi Arabia, but who rightly assumed that a national enemy could be used politically. Rather than making those policy objectives clear and submitting them to democratic review, he used highly dubious intelligence to coerce the nation into a form of financial quicksand not unlike that of the Soviets in Afghanistan -- a place well suited to ginning up taxpayer dollars and patriotic fever. So yes, he was blamed for creating the instability which lead to high gas prices. And no, Obama didn't attack Libya.

(Wow. This is scary because the OP gets his information from a machine which is "educating" a generation of republicans. Many of these people have never studied the middle east in any kind of critical, rigorous, or university context -- yet they have passionate opinions. God help us)

If you want to know why the middle east is so unstable, please study the policies of Britain and the US over the last 100 years. Or just study the monsters Ronald Reagan got in bed with, from Hussein to Iraq and the Mujihadeen. When a superpower forms alliances with bad people in order to influence the region, he plants the seeds of his nation's destruction. Does the OP know that Reagan removed Hussein and Iraq from the list of terrorist nations? Does the OP know why? Does the OP know how much weapons and financial support Reagan gave to Iran? Does the OP know how much weapons and financial support the US has given to the ruthless Saudis? If you support bad people long enough . . . eventually . . . bad things happen.
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