Can be done with natural gas....
She cannot will the price of something to drop to $2.
Somebody should remind the media about Obama’s many pledges....
As much as I would like to see $2.00/gal, that sounds like goofy (if not outright looney) thing to say. Promising a market price from a Government position is not what I would expect from a Republican, much less a conservative. There are world economic factors at play (not just the U.S. economy) that determines the price of fuel. It’s a legitimate goal to bring down the price of fuel, but throwing out prices is not logical.
With enough spending cuts against all levels of the various anti-competition offices in government, it could be done. There wouldn’t be many left with incomes enough for buying fuel for a while. But no one in politics has the guts or selflessness.
Besides, it's not like she promised that unemployment wouldn't go above 8% if she was allowed to borrow trillions in foreign $$$ for her economic stimulus plan.
FReeing drilling and proper resource management WHo knows the good things that can happen...
In Alaska a new gold find is measured the amout of Gold and copper recovered in TONS....
THAT is TONS OF GOLD.. hundreds of tons of Gold.. many hundreds of tons of Gold..
And God knows how much copper silver, and molybdenum AND jobs..
No to speak of the Oil natural gas that will be finally tapped...
And if the oil sans and shale is tapped.. we will not need Canadian oil sand oil...
This like her "I would not raise the debt ceiling" stump speech talking point (except she signed a pledge, Cut-Cap-Balance with a repeal of Obamacare, to do just that).
It's weird and not credible sounding.
"Drill, Baby, Drill" and a strong dollar policy could do wonders for gas prices.
A 2008 Cato piece Weak Dollar and US Petroleum Reserves Behind Strong Oil Price
She will not back down and go wimper in the corner and it makes the msm even crazier.
A strong dollar and a little more drilling would go a long way to reducing gas prices.
When a politician starts making promises that may be beyond their capability, they begin to sound desperate.
Bachmann has promised to repeal Obamacare. Bachmann has promised under-$2-gas.
The Republicans couldn’t even deliver on their $100 Billion in spending cuts they promised in 2010, choosing rather to kick that can down the road.
If they start promising ‘the moon’, I start losing interest.
Read my lips, etc.
A very foolish pledge because the price of gasoline depends on supply and demand considerations that government cannot, and should not, control. If she does all the right things and the price of gasoline is, say, $3.00/gallon — maybe because the economy is booming or there has been supply disruptions in the Middle-East — she’s going to come under pressure to blame oil companies, impose price controls, restrict demand, an all the usual socialist snake oil.