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What's interesting is that, according to the poll, most Americans don't think Obama is responsible for the high gas prices but more than two-thirds of Americans still disapprove of how he's handling the situation.
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What's interesting is that most Americans don't think Obama is responsible for the high gas prices, but more than two-thirds of Americans still disapprove of how he's handling the situation.
It's called stupidity. I don't blame him for gas prices, yet I blame him for gas prices. Personally, I don't want Obama or any President to have the power to control gas prices, becareful what you wish for
It's called stupidity. I don't blame him for gas prices, yet I blame him for gas prices. Personally, I don't want Obama or any President to have the power to control gas prices, becareful what you wish for
Well there is Obamas rhetoric, his foreign policy of destabilization in the middle east,the devaluation of the dollar from money printing...
I don't want him to set the price, I want him to **** and stop meddling in the energy market like he knows whats best.
What's interesting is that, according to the poll, most Americans don't think Obama is responsible for the high gas prices but more than two-thirds of Americans still disapprove of how he's handling the situation.
Yes, let's all get angry at planet Earth for not compressing and cooking enough ancient plant matter to last forever at low cost.
And let's get angry at oil fields for depleting in a bell-shaped curve, rather than as if all the oil were in a giant lake with only mildly declining EROEI over time.
Anger based on ignorance. Brilliant, America! You people really think Obama has control over ancient geology? The biggest failing of Obama (and other Presidents) is their unwillingness to explain Peak Oil geology to the masses. Surely they've been briefed on it. Bush & Cheney have been well aware of U.S. Peak Oil circa 1970, knowing that the Middle East has far more recoverable oil than America. But they wouldn't say it flat out. There's a mandate that Americans must always feel like they can be "independent" even if the facts don't support it. It's always "Morning in America" with blind optimism.
How many Americans have spent even five minutes looking at historical oil production graphs?
Shale oil plenitude is mostly hype, since most of it can't be fracked like the Bakken. People look at what's going on in North Dakota and confuse wet shale with dry shale, aka kerogen. Big difference.
FYI, I recall seeing a calculation that showed the total amount of recoverable oil left in the world could probably fit in the Lake Tahoe basin (if it went high enough on the mountain slopes). But the oil that's left is less and less free-flowing, so that lake visualization is largely meaningless.
Frankly, I don't care what the average American thinks about oil prices, any more than I trust the scientific accuracy of opinion polls on global warming. Half the people in this nation still believe in literal supernatural creation, and scientific literacy is poor. We have a good system of government but a populace that favors willful ignorance over rational interpretation of evidence.
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How about anger at the dimness of average people?
