Posted on 03/30/2011 6:20:27 PM PDT by Nachum
Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction. Consumer price index (CPI) figures from February show an unadjusted 12 month
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In the dark at home.
It just keeps getting worse, it seems to me. Watch the retail outlets disappear. Watch the road traffic disappear. Watch the value of your money shrink. It looks grim to me, but maybe I'm just grim.
Maybe. I’ve never completely understood all the causes and effects of stagflation, but I have reason to believe I understand it a bit better than the current administration does. And you do have reason to be grim, yes.
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Facts? FACTS??? That’s ALL you got, just FACTS?! What a racist! :)
You can show all these charts, all these facts to liberals, and they’ll still just crawl over to DU and post about “Well, I ran into another RACIST today...”
P.S. Thank you for your excellent post.
Can Herr oBOMBa double it again, before the election? To “Teach America a lesson!”?
Gas took a 20 cent jump here in Memphis over the last week.
Steven Chu is Obamas Energy Secretary.
Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work.
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe, Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September.
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/5786/obamas-energy-sec-wants-gasoline-price-increase-of-300
one last quote from Mr. Chu:
Coal is my worst nightmare.
bttt
I wonder what plan Donald Trump would have to reduce the price of gas, mandate a national average? That no state could be higher than the other?
I would suggest that he rations out fuel cards that effectively gives qualified recipients free fuel for commuting, such as families with a certain income level.
I don’t care what it says, it was more than that around here.
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