Dad2three
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OBAMAGAS prices up? 'ALL OBAMA's fault!'
OBAMAGAS prices down? 'OBAMA had nothing to do with it, he got lucky!!'
Here, let's take a look:
Fox News Resumes Perennial Gas Price Charade - YouTube
(3 minutes of FOX railing on high gas prices, blaming it all on Obama, the video won't load onto USMB, you need to click on the link)
On the left: Varnes bitching about high gas prices a couple of years back: it's all Obama's fault. On the right: Varnes saying that cheap gas prices hurt the economy. Priceless!
Fox gas prices 1b - YouTube
(another FOX montage, this video will also not load onto USMB, you need to click on the link))
But wait, here is how FOX treated high gas prices in 2008, under the Bush administration:
(not a word blaming Bush for high gas prices)
At: 1:05 "No president has the power to increase or to lower gas prices".
Yepp, that's what that guest on FOX said. It is DELIGHTFUL to hear all of the excuses that FOX makes for high gas prices, but how dare anyone blame Bush for high gas prices in 2008! Suddenly, in 2009, after January 20th, it was all Obama's fault!! Delightful.
Typical FOX OBAMAGAS graphic in the last years:
Though not from FOX, this delightful billboard from Arizona is worth mentioning:
And this billboard, too:
And another FOX screenshot:
Welch said that Obama should tap our gas reserves.
Didn't Varney say in a graphic above that LOW gas prices hurt our economy? But wait, he was also saying that HIGH gas prices hurt our economy, and of course, it was all Obama's fault:
And remember when FOX tried to scare us that gas would go up to $7 a gallon?
lol...
And of course, in an election year (2012):
Yes, FOX pulled out all the stops and even brought in it's SMARTEST people to talk about OBAMAGAS prices:
Actually, this is not all that new, for you see, before Obama, FOX tried to pin this on, unbelievably, Nancy Pelosi:
"DEMS PICKED NANCY PELOSI" refers to her taking the Speaker's Gavel in January, 2007. So, at the same time that FOX news was twisting itself into a pretzel in order to make sure that Bush, Jr., an oil man, would not get blamed for soaring gas prices in 2008, FOX instead turned to the Steel Magnolia from San Francisco to blame.
This website compares Tim Graham and Neil Cavuto's treatment of gas prices under Obama as opposed to under Bush really quite well:
MRC s Tim Graham and Neil Cavuto Compare Coverage of Gas Prices Bush vs. Obama on Fox News
This website also does it's own pictorial history of how FOX treated Bushgas prices and then OBAMAGAS prices:
A Pictorial History Of Gas Prices As Presented By Fox News News Corpse
But now that OBAMAGAS prices are WAY, WAY, WAY down, here is the kind of stuff we see on FOX:
As OBAMAGAS prices first began to fall, FOX went immediately into "the economy is slowing" mode...
"Why cheap gas isn't good".
Really? Tell that to the American driver.
In short, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of examples of FOX railing on the President for the cost of OBAMAGAS, the same FOX that protected Pres. Bush against any blame for high BUSHGAS prices in 2008.
Oh, and from YESTERDAY, Lou Dobb explains why OBAMAGAS is going down in price:
Why gas prices are falling On Air Videos Fox News
(the video is at the link)
00:40 "because, frankly, economies are slowing down across the world, specifically Europe, specifically China. As a result, less demand for oil, as a result..." (then interrupted by Bill O'Reilly)
1:52: (O'Reilly) "this makes the economy better... why...." (Dobbs"absolutely. Because you have greater production, cheaper fuel, which results in about $1,400 per household in extra disposable income. Remember, this is after tax - $1,400, and this is a big boost..." (O'Reilly)...... "a consumer driven economy, they (the people who are saving $1,400 a year on gas prices) are spending it in other places... and the entire economy lifts... so, Barack Obama, President Obama, he kind of lucked into this, didn't he?" (Dobbs
So, there you have it: the President got lucky, that's all. But wait, Dobbs just said that lower OBAMAGAS prices are good for the economy. However, Neil Cavuto said in the same week that this is bad for the economy. Looks like the FOX-Coven needs to get it's story straight!!!
rightwinger - right up your alley!
I'm curious...can you name a single thing that Barry has done since taking office that would have led to lower energy prices? Because I can list a whole bunch of things that he's either done or proposed that would have led to much higher energy prices.
Bottom line...anyone in this Administration who tries to claim cheaper prices for gasoline or natural gas as something that THEY accomplished is laughably full of shit!
How Obama (and Bush) helped drive down oil prices
How Obama and Bush helped drive down oil prices - Yahoo Finance
The main factor in the recent price drop, DeHaan said, is a decision by OPEC countries not to cut production to drive up oil demand. OPEC believes the declining prices, left unabated, will make the production of shale oil unprofitable.
Bobby Scott Low gas prices are the result of Obama policies PolitiFact Virginia
Here are some of the other measures recently taken by the administration to boost domestic oil production, according to a recent White House factsheet:
* An increase in the sales of leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands. In 2013, the Bureau of Land Management held 30 such sales—the most in a decade—offering 5.7 million acres for lease by industry.
* An increase in the speed with which permits are being issued for actual drilling on federal lands. What's called "processing time" has, the White House boasts, been cut from 228 days in 2012 to 194 days in 2013.
* The opening up of an additional 59 million acres for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a disastrous BP oil spill in April 2010.
In other words, global warming be damned!
How Obama Became the Oil President Mother Jones
