Governors have no control over the price of Obamagas......only the President can do that
What pray tell is "Obamagas"? Barack Obama's policies have affected the price of fossil fuels in a negative way...not in a positive way. Name one policy of his that's led to increased oil and natural gas production!
Governors who approved drilling on State owned land is what fueled this last energy "boom". They did so in spite of Barry and his minions in the Federal Government. So when you pull up to a pump this week and pay less than two dollars a gallon...give thanks to the people who made that happen and consider yourself lucky that Obama wasn't able to achieve his goal of raising that gallon of gas up to six dollars.
Please provide a quote or something where the President claimed it was his goal to raise gasoline prices to six dollars a gallon. In 2008 his plan was to drill everywhere. IF BP hadn't fucked up in the Gulf we'd have seen these prices much sooner.......
Does that hose in your ass provide info to your brain?
I'll that it that you're another one who can't back up their lies about our great petrol prez.......
It wasn't Obama that said it. It was his energy secretary, IIRC, that said something along the lines of having to figure out how to get gasoline prices up to European price levels....
We have a winner!!!!
Of course as a candidate President Obama said:
"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama told The Palm Beach Post early into a two-day swing through Florida.
But on Saturday morning,
Obama said this "wasn't really a new position."
"I made a general point about the fact that we need to provide the American people some relief and that there has been constructive conversations between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate on this issue," he said during a press conference in Cape Canaveral.
"What I will not do, and this has always been my position, is to support a plan that suggests this drilling is the answer to our energy problems," Obama added.
"If we've got a plan on the table that I think meets the goals that America has to set and there are some things in there that I don't like, then obviously that's something that I would consider because that's the nature of how we govern in a democracy."
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Obama says offshore drilling stance nothing new - CNN.com
But Friday, Obama admitted that something is better than nothing and praised a bipartisan energy plan from the Senate that combines alternative energy innovation, financial, nuclear energy and drilling proposals.
He said he is still skeptical about drilling's potential to lower gas prices or reduce dependence on foreign oil.
"The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling," Obama said in the interview with the Florida paper, "and so we don't want gridlock. We want to get something done."
The McCain camp was quick to applaud Obama's softening on the issue.
