The average price of gasoline in 2008 was $3.30/g.
Picking a short term dip as your comparison point is no more real than claiming President Bush was worse because of the high spike at July 2008 when Gasoline was $4.16/g.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
On 11-21-08 it was $1.59 It has spike before but has not gone as high or averaged as high then these last 5 years.