Obama Admits He Didn't Want Low Gas Prices

[whitehall]

Of course Barry Hussein didn't want low gas prices. Even though he didn't have a clue about energy consumption he told Americans that he would wean us off fossil fuel without having a clue about what we would have to replace oil. The way the government weans smokers off tobacco products is to raise the price of cigarettes to the point where it becomes a hardship to smoke. The way to wean Americans off oil consumption is ....The current relative low gas prices are a desperate attempt by democrats to keep angry voters home but they tip the government's hand about the fed's ability to manipulate gas prices You better fill up now before the mid term elections.

 

[Clementine]

See it for yourself. Obama never wanted lower gas prices.


Obama on gas prices - Searchya - Search Results Yahoo Search Results

Obama lied and high gas prices died!

Boy, did Obama make a monkey out of you! You fell for it hook, line and sinker!

LOL... and I love it!

Obama said he thought it should rise. He didn't get his wish for now. And you gloat? It's more about his way of thinking that should concern you more than the actual control he does or doesn't have.

 

[thereisnospoon]

snopes.com President Obama on High Gas Prices

Thanks, Kosh, for finding better copy!!

Are you like, deaf? He doesn't say anything like that there.

The POTUS can't spike (or drop) gas prices anyway, even if he wanted to. Oil doesn't work that way. The price of petrol has nothing to do with the POTUS.

Didn't we just do this? Were you going "la la la can't hear you"?

Then the purpose of candy dunce's thread is moot.
She is on here wetting her panties because she wants us to believe that the most anti fossil fuel president in the history of POTUS that have been in office since we started using oil is to get credit for lower gas prices.
You libs have many problems.
One of which is a propensity to distort the facts.

 

[Pogo]

Scroll down to the first YOUTUBE video.

Sorry, can't get the URL to post.

Uh -- I hate to be the one to break this to you but ----- that's not O'bama in that video.

But if you want a stronger, more direct and completely honest statement of that same sentiment -- here ya go:

"Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil" -- George W. Bush, State of the Union speech, 2006

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[thereisnospoon]

Gas prices are below $3.00 a gallon.

Thank your Mr. President.

Oh but but but..When prices rise, Obama gets a hall pass?
Shouldn't you be drinking tea, clucking with the other feminazis trying to drum up another false women's issue?
Go watch reruns of The View.

 

[francoHFW]

For hater dupes who get no real news, you should know Obama has raised renewable energy production from 10% to over 13% of the total since 2010, lowering demand for fossil fuels. Get 70% savings on home solar and sthu...lol.

Regulation and safe fracking are not opposition, hater dupes, just intelligence. You wouldn't understand LOL.

 

[dblack]

Hater dupes vs Franco Obama fluffer

 

[Kosh]

Thanks, Kosh, for finding better copy!!

Are you like, deaf? He doesn't say anything like that there.

The POTUS can't spike (or drop) gas prices anyway, even if he wanted to. Oil doesn't work that way. The price of petrol has nothing to do with the POTUS.

Didn't we just do this? Were you going "la la la can't hear you"?

Obama: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing.

The claim that won rsquo t die Did Obama want higher gas prices - The Washington Post

Would he prefer a gradual adjustment DOWN????

From the same "debunking" article...
In both instances we’ve cited, Obama suggested he’s averse to letting gas prices shock families’ finances. In his White House remarks, he said point blank: “I want gas prices lower.”
Has the president taken adequate steps to make that happen?

So what actions HAS Obama taken to make lower prices???
Zero!
On the contrary he has signed fewer federal oil leases
The number of oil and gas leases granted by the federal government in the western United States declined by 44 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration versus the last two years of the Bush presidency, according to a new study prepared for the American Petroleum Institute (API) by EIS Solutions.
Study Feds Approving Fewer Oil and Gas Leases Heartlander Magazine
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Bush Vs. Obama On Gasoline Prices In One Very Simple Picture Start Thinking Right

very good ! another irrelevant chart that proves absolutely NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH ..

NEITHER POTUS had or has a damn bit of control on gas prices .... you're an idiot.

So I guess the far left will claim this with a (D) in office, but watch them change their tune when an (R) gets in office.

And yes presidents/Congress can influence/affect gas prices.

No, they cannot. Other than passing federal excise taxes but the price of oil (and hence gasoline) is determined by the fluctuations of the international oil market as a fungible commodity.

Canada's experiencing the exact same price drop so feel free to 'splain to the rest of us how O'bama and Congress do that.

So if the Federal government via Congress signed by the president signs a gas tax that .50 cents a gallon does the price go up or down?

If the government create 1000 new regulations at the cost of trillions to the companies that make gas, do price go up or down?

So yes the government from Congress to the President can affect gas prices..

 

[Kosh]

Scroll down to the first YOUTUBE video.

Sorry, can't get the URL to post.

Uh -- I hate to be the one to break this to you but ----- that's not O'bama in that video.

But if you want a stronger, more direct and completely honest statement of that same sentiment -- here ya go:

"Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil" -- George W. Bush, State of the Union speech, 2006

​

And yet you voted twice to make energy less affordable for all, especially the poor..

Good little far left Obama drone..

 

[whitehall]

For hater dupes who get no real news, you should know Obama has raised renewable energy production from 10% to over 13% of the total since 2010, lowering demand for fossil fuels. Get 70% savings on home solar and sthu...lol.

Regulation and safe fracking are not opposition, hater dupes, just intelligence. You wouldn't understand LOL.

Barry Hussein's incoherent focus on solar energy cost Americans billions when his favorite federally subsidized green energy solar plant went bankrupt. Spending a trillion dollars to lower demand on fossil fuels by 3% is insane.

 

[EconChick]

For hater dupes who get no real news, you should know Obama has raised renewable energy production from 10% to over 13% of the total since 2010, lowering demand for fossil fuels. Get 70% savings on home solar and sthu...lol.

Regulation and safe fracking are not opposition, hater dupes, just intelligence. You wouldn't understand LOL.

Barry Hussein's incoherent focus on solar energy cost Americans billions when his favorite federally subsidized green energy solar plant went bankrupt. Spending a trillion dollars to lower demand on fossil fuels by 3% is insane.

Clearly one side here has all the facts; the other side has all the bluster.

 

[EconChick]

Awww, Candy admits I push all her buttons.

I have that effect on liars.




Bawahhhahahahhaaaa

 

[Pogo]

For hater dupes who get no real news, you should know Obama has raised renewable energy production from 10% to over 13% of the total since 2010, lowering demand for fossil fuels. Get 70% savings on home solar and sthu...lol.

Regulation and safe fracking are not opposition, hater dupes, just intelligence. You wouldn't understand LOL.

Barry Hussein's incoherent focus on solar energy cost Americans billions when his favorite federally subsidized green energy solar plant went bankrupt. Spending a trillion dollars to lower demand on fossil fuels by 3% is insane.

Clearly one side here has all the facts; the other side has all the bluster.

Yeah, clearly.
Would you like some facts to balance that out? I could set you up. I know people. Say the word.

 

[healthmyths]

Clearly Obama has had NOTHING to do with the private oil production. No one has ever claimed that. So he can have little direct executive action.
What HE CAN do is increase oil production on federal lands. WHICH HE HASN"T!
The fact is that Obama has physically signed 40% less oil leases on Federal lands.
This in turn has REDUCED oil production on federal lands
In 2010, 36 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands.
Due to Obama Administration policies, by 2013, only 23 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands
According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, since 2009 oil production on federal lands is down by 6 percent and natural gas production on federal lands is down 28 percent.

This is particularly striking because since 2009 overall oil production on non-federal land is up by 61 percent and natural gas production on non-federal land is up by 33 percent.
Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Still a Disappointment - IER
AND WHY is oil and gas production DOWN on federal lands???
Besides taking an enormously long time to process permits, the number of leases on federal lands is down dramatically under the Obama Administration as the chart below shows.
The average number of onshore leases that the Bureau of Land Management issued during the Obama Administration is more than 50 percent less than the average number issued by the Clinton Administration and over a third less than those issued by the Bush Administration.
In fiscal year 2013, 2,278 fewer leases were issued compared to fiscal year 2006 (1,468 leases in FY 2013 compared to 3,746 in FY 2006).

SO while Obama can't do anything about increasing or decreasing oil/gas production on non-federal lands..
I'm going to shout now!!!
HE HAS SIGNED 50% LESS then Clinton did and 33% less then BUSH DID!
Obama could have signed the SAME amount as Bush and kept Federal oil/gas production steady but INSTEAD he's reduced the oil and gas production on FEDERAL Lands by 13%!!!!

These are the facts!
REFUTE THEM !!! PLEASE PROVE Differently or shut the f...k UP!

 

[Pogo]

Clearly Obama has had NOTHING to do with the private oil production. No one has ever claimed that. So he can have little direct executive action.
What HE CAN do is increase oil production on federal lands. WHICH HE HASN"T!
The fact is that Obama has physically signed 40% less oil leases on Federal lands.
This in turn has REDUCED oil production on federal lands
In 2010, 36 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands.
Due to Obama Administration policies, by 2013, only 23 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands
According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, since 2009 oil production on federal lands is down by 6 percent and natural gas production on federal lands is down 28 percent.

This is particularly striking because since 2009 overall oil production on non-federal land is up by 61 percent and natural gas production on non-federal land is up by 33 percent.
Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Still a Disappointment - IER
AND WHY is oil and gas production DOWN on federal lands???
Besides taking an enormously long time to process permits, the number of leases on federal lands is down dramatically under the Obama Administration as the chart below shows.
The average number of onshore leases that the Bureau of Land Management issued during the Obama Administration is more than 50 percent less than the average number issued by the Clinton Administration and over a third less than those issued by the Bush Administration.
In fiscal year 2013, 2,278 fewer leases were issued compared to fiscal year 2006 (1,468 leases in FY 2013 compared to 3,746 in FY 2006).
View attachment 32642
SO while Obama can't do anything about increasing or decreasing oil/gas production on non-federal lands..
I'm going to shout now!!!
HE HAS SIGNED 50% LESS then Clinton did and 33% less then BUSH DID!
Obama could have signed the SAME amount as Bush and kept Federal oil/gas production steady but INSTEAD he's reduced the oil and gas production on FEDERAL Lands by 13%!!!!

These are the facts!
REFUTE THEM !!! PLEASE PROVE Differently or shut the f...k UP!

So what? Doesn't make a damn bit of difference in the international oil market where it all trades.

Let's say you could suddenly turn on a spigot -- federal lands or wherever -- that brings a gazillion barrels of a-bubblin' crude à la Jed Clampett. Let's say you could also get an oil company interested in exploiting that, even though it would work against what they exist for, which is profit. And let's say the extra equipment to go after it actually existed. And let's say the extra refining capacity to handle it also actually existed. It takes a lot of imagination but let's just conjure it up for argument. So you bring all this new supply of a gazillion barrels a month to a market that didn't have that much yesterday. OPEC looks over to see what you're doing, writes down "1 gazillion", cuts their own production by the same amount, and goes to lunch. One offsets the other. Net change: zero.

By the way --- look at your own chart there: Reagan to Bush... Bush to Clinton... Clinton to Bush II... Bush II to O'bama... see a trend? How do you take that and pretend it's something new?

 

[EconChick]

Great post, healthmyths!!

 

[EconChick]

I have a number of other links/videos....just too lazy to post. I'll prob get around to it in the new few pages.

 

[Pogo]

I have a number of other links/videos....just too lazy to post. I'll prob get around to it in the new few pages.

Yuh huh, sure you do.

Here, let me save you the trouble. Here's a link to what you have.

 

[healthmyths]

Clearly Obama has had NOTHING to do with the private oil production. No one has ever claimed that. So he can have little direct executive action.
What HE CAN do is increase oil production on federal lands. WHICH HE HASN"T!
The fact is that Obama has physically signed 40% less oil leases on Federal lands.
This in turn has REDUCED oil production on federal lands
In 2010, 36 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands.
Due to Obama Administration policies, by 2013, only 23 percent of our nation’s oil production took place on federal lands
According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, since 2009 oil production on federal lands is down by 6 percent and natural gas production on federal lands is down 28 percent.

This is particularly striking because since 2009 overall oil production on non-federal land is up by 61 percent and natural gas production on non-federal land is up by 33 percent.
Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Still a Disappointment - IER
AND WHY is oil and gas production DOWN on federal lands???
Besides taking an enormously long time to process permits, the number of leases on federal lands is down dramatically under the Obama Administration as the chart below shows.
The average number of onshore leases that the Bureau of Land Management issued during the Obama Administration is more than 50 percent less than the average number issued by the Clinton Administration and over a third less than those issued by the Bush Administration.
In fiscal year 2013, 2,278 fewer leases were issued compared to fiscal year 2006 (1,468 leases in FY 2013 compared to 3,746 in FY 2006).
View attachment 32642
SO while Obama can't do anything about increasing or decreasing oil/gas production on non-federal lands..
I'm going to shout now!!!
HE HAS SIGNED 50% LESS then Clinton did and 33% less then BUSH DID!
Obama could have signed the SAME amount as Bush and kept Federal oil/gas production steady but INSTEAD he's reduced the oil and gas production on FEDERAL Lands by 13%!!!!

These are the facts!
REFUTE THEM !!! PLEASE PROVE Differently or shut the f...k UP!

So what? Doesn't make a damn bit of difference in the international oil market where it all trades.

Let's say you could suddenly turn on a spigot -- federal lands or wherever -- that brings a gazillion barrels of a-bubblin' crude à la Jed Clampett. Let's say you could also get an oil company interested in exploiting that, even though it would work against what they exist for, which is profit. And let's say the extra equipment to go after it actually existed. And let's say the extra refining capacity to handle it also actually existed. It takes a lot of imagination but let's just conjure it up for argument. So you bring all this new supply of a gazillion barrels a month to a market that didn't have that much yesterday. OPEC looks over to see what you're doing, writes down "1 gazillion", cuts their own production by the same amount, and goes to lunch. One offsets the other. Net change: zero.

By the way --- look at your own chart there: Reagan to Bush... Bush to Clinton... Clinton to Bush II... Bush II to O'bama... see a trend? How do you take that and pretend it's something new?

So your observation is the international oil market affects the price right?
If as you suggested a spigot turned on all the Federal land oil leases.. YOU don't think that extra supply would influence the "international market" to
say "wow... USA now has increased OIL supply by xx% that means there is MORE OIL for sale. We've got to lower our prices to sell that oil we have
already paid for!"

2nd you are making a very fallacious (in case you don't know the word means "wrong".."false") premise oil company interest favors lower supply.
Again here for you and for obviously very ignorant people like you is WHAT makes up the cost of a gallon of gas...

1. Crude Oil: 67%.The cost of crude oil as a share of the retail price varies over time and among regions of the country. Refiners paid an average of about $104.00 per barrel of crude oil, or about $2.47 per gallon.
2. Refining Costs and Profits: 14%
3. Distribution, Marketing, and Retail Costs and Profits: 8%
4. Taxes: 12%. Federal excise taxes were 18.4 cents per gallon and state excise taxes averaged 23.52 cents per gallon.

Last updated: July 24, 2014 What do I pay for in a gallon of regular gasoline - FAQ - U.S. Energy Information Administration EIA

So... IF a gasoline supplier can buy OIL for LESS then $104 a barrel or $2.47 per gallon the supplier makes MORE MONEY!!!
See that's the way the "free" market works!
Here let me make it simpler for YOU!
If a gallon of gas you buy at your gas station sells for $3.70 of which 67% is cost of crude or $2.48 is crude cost
BUT if the oil because of the gigantic spigot you discussed increases supply cause cost of crude to drop 25%...
That would mean your cost at the station will drop at least 25% or $2.77...
So YES contrary to your limited knowledge... INCREASING SUPPLY of anything generally LOWERS the costs of ANYTHING!

 

[EconChick]

Thanks for educating the HACKS, H!