Sorry to say, but this works. Americans are stupid. Americans wait for the MSM to tell them what they think.
Americans are not stupid. You may want them to be stupid when you talk about the price of oil or gasoline after the economy collapsed. But Americans certainly remember these prices. Some people actually keep records and I am one of those. So, at my location, I paid $3.979 in June 08 and after Bush and the GOP collapsed the economy, I paid $1.629 in Dec 08.
And as the economy recovered the prices have recovered.