[silverleaf]

I remember the July of 2008 when oil reached $147 a barrel and gas reached $4 a gallon

Bush announced he would “drill baby drill” and the price of oil dropped immediately

By August it was $120 a barrel

By September below $100 a barrel

October $70 a barrel and uS gas prices @ $1.99 a gallon

November gas prices @ $1.72 a gallon

Dec oil price collapse below $40 a barrel, gas prices about $1.60 a gallon

Jan 2009: hail to president sutoro

Those were the days, my friend. Dhimmis in power ensured they would surely end.

[NELSON111]

Nothing happens in a vacuum. Part of that drop was also the economy beginning to fall off a cliff. It wasn't just drilling. It was the drop in demand.

As much as I want this to be Obama's fault...a lot of it isn't. Freepers are funny when it comes to gas prices. They fail to realize the same thing that drove oil prices up under Bush are driving it up now: SPECULATORS.

We don't have a supply problem. There is a lot of surplus out there.

[calex59]

Jan 2009: hail to president sutoro

Just a pet peeve of mine but you guys who want to use Bozo's step father's name for him please learn how to spell it, it is NOT sutoro or soeetero or any of the other idiotic variations I have seen on FR it is Soetoro. It is easy to look up on the internet and spell correctly, to not do so makes us on FR look like a bunch of illiterate fools. I call him Bozo, easy to spell and says how I feel about him, he is a clown who shouldn't be in the office of President. However, if you are going to use one of the proper names he has used, either Obama, Dunham or Soetoro please spell it correctly. If he has any other aliases out there I am unaware of them.