Is the President to blame for gas prices?

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Is Obama responsible for gas prices?

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\\(())// said:
No, you ducked the question. Should the government regulate prices?
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No, they should not.

\\(())// said:
Really? Since the smaller, less powerful government you supposedly favor presumably wouldn't attempt to regulate commodity prices, that's good, isn't it?
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it's good that he wants high gas prices in an election year? I think the premise was that Obama was lying when he said he was doing all he could to lower gas prices, when in fact, he's not doing anything.

\\(())// said:
Which restrictions? Be specific.
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how specific? offshore drilling? deepwater drilling? ANWAR? what are you unfamiliar with? maybe not letting any more refineries be built?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
so Chu was lying?
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Its gotta blow you mind.....Onecell certainly dances to the tunes in his head no matter what music everyone else hears....

Obamas own Energy Secy. Stephen Chu tells it exactly like it is... he knows....he knows just what Obamas goal is and tells us straight up...get us using windmills, and solar panels, and elect. cars and other bullshit pie in the sky nonsense while the rest of the world advances their economys and power in the world....
and we got Onecell ain't gonna believe it.....
No melad.....Obama is not insane.....he tells us what his plans for America are and we won't believe him.......because if we believed him and still supported him,
WE'D BE FUCKIN' INSANE like you.
 
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SmarterThanYou said:
No, they should not.
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Thanks for making that clear. Then how is Obama responsible for gas prices?

SmarterThanYou said:
it's good that he wants high gas prices in an election year? I think the premise was that Obama was lying when he said he was doing all he could to lower gas prices, when in fact, he's not doing anything.
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Did he say he wants high gas prices? BTW, ever hear of the Strategic Oil Reserve? Guess who released it in June 2011 - not an election year for him?

SmarterThanYou said:
how specific? offshore drilling? deepwater drilling? ANWAR? what are you unfamiliar with? maybe not letting any more refineries be built?
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Are you under the impression that "drill, baby, drill" will provide enough supply to affect gas prices?

If so, provide the proof.

It doesn't look that way to me:

It may theoretically be possible for the U.S. and Canada to more than double our oil output, as the NPC suggests. To put that in perspective, we'd be adding the rough equivalent of another Saudi Arabia to the world oil market. But to do it, the countries would have to pretty much tap every resource they have, both onshore and off. Obviously, the old "drill baby drill" crowd would love that approach. But it's' still controversial in coastal swing states like Florida. Beyond that, accessing some of the resources would require technology we don't have yet.

Let's assume the U.S. and Canada did manage to drill enough oil that we could tell Saudi Arabia to take it's light sweet crude and shove it. What then? Well, we'd still be exposed to all the ugliness of the global oil market. American and Candadian crude would be priced just like everywhere else -- based on what the world's highest bidders are willing to pay for it. Americans would continue to pain at the pump whenever there was another war in the Middle East or African militants blew up a pipeline.




http://www.theatlantic.com/business...we-cant-drill-our-way-to-oil-autonomy/252812/

Ever hear of the Exxon Valdez? Deepwater Horizon? Wonder why there have to be regulations? Laissez-faire hasn't worked too well with the oil companies, has it?

Interesting that a small-government advocate seems to think supply and demand should be subject to presidential control...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...oleum-reserve-will-release-more-if-necessary/
 
The Dude said:
Thanks again for the false shortage in America. Oil companies n me love oil over 100. Please promise not to increase drilling until 200.
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the us has gone from an oil importing to an oil exporting nation, per cnn

it takes about 5 years for new drilling to produce more oil, once more per cnn

as for blaming bush, most of the 'new' oil drilling started during bush's administration

oh well
 
Don Quixote said:
the us has gone from an oil importing to an oil exporting nation, per cnn it takes about 5 years for new drilling to produce more oil, once more per cnn as for blaming bush, most of the 'new' oil drilling started during bush's administration oh well
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American oil production is currently higher than at any point in years. The myth that Obama has strangled domestic energy production is simply not true.

http://www.eia.gov/
 
Gas prices,,,,,,

Venezuela.............$0.12
Kuwait..................$0.78
Russia...................$2.10
Puerto Rico...........$1.74
Saudi Arabia..........$0.91
Egypt....................$0.65
UAE.......................$1.89

http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/03/03/president-obama-rising-gasoline-prices-are-everyone-elses-fault/

President Obama: Rising Gasoline Prices Are Everyone Else’s Fault
by Myron Ebell on March 3, 2012

President Barack Obama’s frantic efforts to deflect blame for rising gasoline prices continued this week and became even more incoherent and contradictory.

TOTAL U S Crude oil production was 8.971 million barrels in 1985
down to 5.360 million in 2009

http://205.254.135.7/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=US&trk=r#pet

Step away from the Koolade----- Imports and consumption are up, domestic production down because of Democrats prohibition on new drilling, East and West Coasts and ANWAR going on for the last 20+ years
 
So your position is that Democrats have been in total control of US energy policy since 1985, and current prices are Obama's fault even though today's production figures are higher than they've been in years?

Check the data yourself:

http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/data.cfm
 
Derp Derp said:
I'd say that the upswing in petroleum consumption by China and India are probably having a greater impact on the price of gas then anything any of our political parties could have done. Particularly considering that 3/4 of the price of gasoline is the cost of crude oil.
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I'd say you are partially right, but wouldn't understand why u r way off.
Hint Brent vs WTI
 
\\(())// said:
People in some other parts of the world enjoy filling up their tanks cheaply thanks to subsidies provided by wealthy, oil-rich governments.


Maybe oil companies that get subsidies from the US government should lower the price of gas....



http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2012/0229/World-s-cheapest-gas-Top-10-countries/Venezuela-0.18-per-gallon-0.05-per-liter
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Maybe you should wait till we stop laughing.
Investing is hard except when Dummycrats drop a shooting fish in a barrel game into your lap.
 
\\(())// said:
So your position is that Democrats have been in total control of US energy policy since 1985, and current prices are Obama's fault even though today's production figures are higher than they've been in years?

Check the data yourself:

http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/data.cfm
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My position is, that had we begun, as we should have, a drive to get off the foreign energy by every means at our disposal after 9/11 (and no, I don't think Bush got even close to a plan for that) we would be in a better position now.

Instead we had one guy who didn't do enough, and another who followed him with added emphasis on shutting down even stuff that makes sense (the XL pipeline) while pushing tire inflation and a car that has just been shut down from production as the resolution.

We've had two Presidents in a row without vision enough to do what is necessary.
 
So your contention is that America can drill it's way to energy independence and lower fuel prices?
 
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