Obama responsible for bringing $5 per gallon gasoline

If you have to fill up your gas at least 3 times a week to get to work, you should consider finding a new job.

 

This could hae something to do with refineries retooling for spring and summer blends, rising cost of oil and California's gas tax. All of these are not controlled by the President.

 

Gas shot up twenty cents within two weeks in Austin/Houston.

Back to sixty dollar tanks.

 

texxx, where exactly were you when gas prices were dropping a couple months ago...and several months before that?

 

Which super easy to do. I always tell this to people who want another job or are unemployed: just get a closer/better/easier job, you dingus!

 

bigtexxx let me get this straight, you graduated with a business degree and still don't know what kind of impact speculators have on the oil prices?

Do you want Obama to do something about that to make the country more "socialist?"

 

Quit feeding the troll.

 

Rice doesn't a business major for undergrad. So I wonder what kind of degree he got?

 

limiting commodity futures positions is now considered socialist? it was that way from 1937 to 1993/2000

he had his first two years to pass any legislation he wanted or he could sign an executive order on it tomorrow if he wasn't working for the banks


sigh

 

a month ago??? I just put gas for $3.25/g 10 days ago...and now it's $3.70 at the same gas station!!!! A month ago, I paid $2.89/g and thought it was reasonable (given that as a consumer the oil companies succeeded in creating a new norm for me, any thing less than $3/g and I consider myself getting a bargain!!)

I have seen it go down and (mostly) go up before, but I have NEVER seen it spike so much so fast in such a short period of time. Funny too given that Obama was just touting "lower energy costs" to Americans given his awesome policies! I live within 12 miles of work, I have a midsize sedan that gets close to 23 miles/gallon...WTF else am I supposed to do?? Gas prices are still too high for me.

 

Business degree?
High school economics within the first week tells you enough to realize that the president has very little control over gas prices.

As long as idiots like BigTexxx keep perpetuating myths like these, it makes no difference what degree anyone ends up with.

 

You're so right yet so wrong.

If this was an issue that the president wanted fixed he'd be campaigning on it like he has been on guns & healthcare. He's full of empty rhetoric on the issue.

 

I thought it was Bush?

But who cares?

< insert current President here > sucks!

 

Does he ever talk about the issue? For there to be empty rhetoric, there has to be rhetoric.

Besides, why is it an "issue"? Gas is based on market prices. It's cost went down due to a financial collapse and drop in demand. Now the price has gone up due to a growing economy and demand. I don't recall Obama complaining about that.

 

It shot up like a rocket in the summer of 2008. I remember paying over $4 a gallon in League City at that time. McCain bore the brunt because of it...as he was portrayed as a Bush clone. The fact is that when gas prices go up like this, the person (or party) in power gets blamed.

As long as the Middle East is as unstable as it has been over the last decade, we will see this kind of volatile oil pricing.

 

You people should be asking why Obama does not have a tax break on hummers like bush did if you had a business. That would be righteous.

 

Its called speculative market brah. Stock Market is a future indicator of the economy. Stock Market = all time high = future indicator of people using more energy resources = gas prices go up.

 

He can increase regulation on the speculation market and invest in clean energy(the only long term solutions to stabilizing gas prices).... O WAIT the very people b****ing about Obama not handling gas prices(Republicans) are against the only long term solutions.