[sickoflibs]

RE :”Then President Bush (who unlike the current occupant of the White House actually understood oil and gas very well) simply stated that the US would immediately open up its drilling off shore, working the shales and the sands, working the ANWR and in the Dakotas.
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But guess what? It did not take years for the price to be impacted. No sir. Within months.
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The Saudis and OPEC met and immediately reacted by cutting their prices. ........So they lowered their prices...dramatically.
WITHIN SIX MONTHS THE PRICE OF GAS WAS WELL BELOW $2.00 A GALLON! ...and going down. That was four years ago, in 2008.

Gas prices dropped that low in late 2008 when the entire stock market crashed, and world demand for oil dropped dramicatically. Trying to repeat GWB’s success in that might cause some other problems.
President Bush’s Speech to the Nation on the Economic Crisis (TARP Speech) September 24, 2008

Going after Obama for his anti-domestic energy policies is critical but the story above might need some fine tuning to be believed.

[Jeff Head]

The prices were on the way down before the crash...and the crash was principally a financial crisis brought on by the Housing crash which, IMHO, was engineered by the democrats themselves.

Obama tied to the Economic Crisishttp://www.jeffhead.com/http://www.jeffhead.com//obama/communityorgan.htm

Watch the video linked there, “Burning down the House,”...it explains the crash very well.

[stephenjohnbanker]

We need to start NOW!