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He is doing nothing to keep prices down. He doesn't want them to go down, he wants to break the back of America so he can redesign it to suit his socialist ideas. The man is corrupt and dangerous. We must remove him in '12...
He could make the price of gas drop dramatically tomorrow if he would announce we are going to drill everywhere we can place a drill. Prices would drop over night..! He has told the oil producing nations we won't drill and will continue to buy oil from them, so they can make the rules, knowing they are dealing with a cowardly, incompetent, child. The whole world is laughing at him... and us
dumbest thing I ever heard because last time I checked President Obama wasn't the CEO of Exxon Mobil! Obviously you don't understand the markets and how Oil is traded! Only fools think that the rising cost of fuel is controlled by the US and it's Government!
By the way we can drill in every single spot in the US and the price of gasoline wouldn't come down. It's called "supply and demand" and the Chinese are the biggest consumers of gasoline now.
Venezuelans pay 87 cents for a gallon of Gas! How is that possible in a "Socialistic" nation like that? If anybody is breaking the "backs" of America it is "corporate" America and not Obama!
What can he do? Seriously, what can he do to bring gas prices down tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
All he has to do is say we are going to start drilling and the prices would drop within hours. The prices are held high because the oil countries know they are in control, for as long as obama is in the WH, they can charge whatever they want. obama loves to see the nation struggle to survive. It make his takeover easier.
I guarantee prices would drop within hours if he had the b@lls to be a real man...
There is no war on this planet that President Obama has started. There is nothing that he has destabilized that wasn't already [MOD CUT] in the first place.
He can finish some entanglements, but that won't bring down prices anytime soon. He can disengage from some business that isn't ours, but that won't bring down prices tomorrow. He can develop a coherent energy policy, but that won't affect oil prices in the near future.
There's nothing anybody can do. Leave it to the market. The speculators in oil futures will eventually take a bursted bubble bath.
See, this is why you are a democrat, you are totally misinformed and believe all the left wing lies. Everything you say is completely wrong and upside down. Get a new coach to tell you your opinion, the one you have now is way out there...
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What can he do? Seriously, what can he do to bring gas prices down tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
Working to allow domestic drilling would drop gas prices. He's been in office 2 years and has not done that. I blame him partially for the $4/gallon gas we have now.
dumbest thing I ever heard because last time I checked President Obama wasn't the CEO of Exxon Mobil! Obviously you don't understand the markets and how Oil is traded! Only fools think that the rising cost of fuel is controlled by the US and it's Government!
By the way we can drill in every single spot in the US and the price of gasoline wouldn't come down. It's called "supply and demand" and the Chinese are the biggest consumers of gasoline now.
Venezuelans pay 87 cents for a gallon of Gas! How is that possible in a "Socialistic" nation like that? If anybody is breaking the "backs" of America it is "corporate" America and not Obama!
I think you are the one that doesn't understand how things work. You are totally wrong, prices would drop in hours if a-hole in the WH would man up and start drilling. It must be tough to be so wrong on every issue. Don't worry, the Republicans and the Tea Party will save you too.. We help the ignorant as well and the good people who know obama is corrupt and needs to go..
Is Obama doing everything he can to keep the cost of oil/gas down
Yep shutting down drilling for oil and natural sure helps. Likewise shutting down the coal industry has a secondary effect on overall energy supplies....therefore increasing all prices.WTF win the future...change we can believe in
Can the Republican candidates for President wake up to this being the Number 1 campaign issue? Maybe they need to get out of the cities more and talk to people. Everytime Obama throws another class warfare grenade, the zombie Republicans should be hammering him on how this is what's really hurting the middle class and non-urban poor, not just at the pumps but at the supermarkets and stores, too.
See, this is why you are a democrat, you are totally misinformed and believe all the left wing lies. Everything you say is completely wrong and upside down. Get a new coach to tell you your opinion, the one you have now is way out there...
Really? This is your counter argument?
Please, indulge me. List all of the wars President Obama has started and all of the unrest in the world he has initiated.
We would need to drill AND place regulations on oil speculation. Require those trading oil to take delivery of it. This was how it was prior to 2001. Joe Schmoe down the street should not be able to buy oil futures like he could by Google. Drilling could help the supply issue, and regulations could deal with Wall St speculation. We would have $40 oil in no time. Obama refuses to do either.
Speculation is not the problem. Commodities markets are a zero sum game. For every speculator that makes a buck on a long position, someone loses on a short. Unless these shorts are somehow losing money on purpose to support high oil prices, blaming futures markets is a red herring used by libs to distract an ignorant populace from the truth.
The real reason for high oil/gas prices are:
Artificial manipulation of free market supply by a multi-nation, thug run Cartel (OPEC)
Artificial manipulation of free market supply by another thug in Washington DC (EPA/Obama preventing free exploration and production in the US)
Artificially high worldwide demand for fossil fuels due to massive government subsides to consumers in countries like China, Venezuela, etc.
Artificially high gasoline prices in developed nations due to draconian, socialistic oil production & gasoline taxes.
Massive devaluation of the US Dollar.
If Obama's new investigatory commission on high gasoline prices really does do it's job, they will point the finger right back at Obama himself. Anyone want to bet this will actually happen?
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