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Already, pump prices are higher than they've been in previous years, suggesting they will top $4 soon and possibly reach an unprecedented $5 this summer.
President Obama is starting to notice the political implications. So he sent Robert Gibbs — now a top campaign adviser — out to tell the public not to worry.
"Just on Friday, the Department of the Interior issued permits that will expand our exploration in the Arctic," Gibbs said Sunday. "Our domestic oil production is at an eight-year high, and our use of foreign oil is at a 16-year low. So we're making progress."
"Progress" isn't exactly how Obama described the country's energy picture in 2008, when gas prices were closing in on $4 a gallon. Then, it was a clear sign of "Washington's failure to lead on energy," which was "turning the middle-class squeeze into a devastating vise-grip for millions of Americans."
Obama Called High Gas Prices A Crisis in 2008; Now They're Called Progress - Investors.com
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Instead of aggressively expanding oil production, he offered a set of ridiculous alternatives — hugely wasteful "green" energy subsidies, a call for a million electric cars by 2014 and costly fuel economy mandates that won't make a dent in consumption for decades.
With gas prices up 93% since Obama took office, we're seeing just how well this approach works.
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#1 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:06 PM ESTIf he was a socialist the oil companies would have been nationalised by now.
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#2 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:26 PM ESTUnfortunately, for all of us, BO has had a lot of "progress" in other areas of the economy as well...
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#3 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:23 PM ESTNailed that one too.
After watching the GOP debate last night..... Any of the 4 remaining candidates would do a much better job than Obama, in the White House
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Any of the 4 remaining candidates would do a much better job than Obama, in the White House
ummmmm I dont share your outlook on that one.
Ron Paul 2012
Tyler, thats what Maxine Waters wants to do, like the Government wouldn't @!$%# that up beyond belief.
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#4 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:54 PM ESTSurely no one is surprised that things that were "bad" back in 2008 are not "bad" now that he is running for re-election are they?
Remember deficits were a failure of leadership back then also.
#5 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:11 PM ESTBoth Sides were to blame for the PROBLEM.
But Obama is to blame because he promised a solution, and failed to follow through on any of his plans...... No Leadership...
A rudderless ship headed toward the rocks, with a blind Captain pointing the way.
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Both Sides were to blame for the PROBLEM.
I would only change one word in that statement, that is "were" should be ARE.
Because we STILL have major issues confronting us as a county, and these partisan games that they continue to play are NOT helping matters in the least.
"For the well-off in this country," Obama said in May 2008, "high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they're a huge problem, bordering on a crisis."
No change. Still in crisis mode.
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#6 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:52 PM ESTYou could hear it in his voice when he went to Louisiana for the oil spill.
He had no solution, and no idea where to look for one...
It's kind of like egg head, meets NO common sense
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He had no solution, and no idea where to look for one...
So he dispatched his Dynamic Genius Duo, Tinker Toy Chu, and Lube Job Jane, and poof! the oil disappeared!
OBAMA's 2008 Commercial for the high price of Gas..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_tjPLJwVI&feature=player_embedded
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I believed him!
Then when I noticed who were to comprise the executive branch, I new it was curtains for fishermen, and the corporate take over of the oceans were on the horizon.
Windmills displacing food production. Oil and Gas production on Georges Bank.
Pew Charities (the decendants of Sunoco founder Joe Pew) and EDF, the corporate friendly green washer of Walmart, BP, and US Cargill, have half of Obamas cabinet in their oil slicked pockets!
Try explaining that to the "progressive base"!
They seem to have a Koch addiction.
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