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No president has much control over gas prices. They are are much more affected by OPEC, demand, production, and in some areas the higher cost of summer blends.
When Obama said he "didn't mind" $5 gas the liberals just nodded like a bunch of bobble heads. And in 2011 when prices were over $4 a gallon, the liberals never said word. But now that Donald Trump is in office, my God, it's a catastrophe.
You leftists are nothing more than a bunch of whining hypocrites.
No president has much control over gas prices. They are are much more affected by OPEC, demand, production, and in some areas the higher cost of summer blends.
When Obama said he "didn't mind" $5 gas the liberals just nodded like a bunch of bobble heads. And in 2011 when prices were over $4 a gallon, the liberals never said word. But now that Donald Trump is in office, my God, it's a catastrophe.
You leftists are nothing more than a bunch of whining hypocrites.
/thread fail. Hugely.
So are righties claiming the economy is due to Trump.
Your figures are incorrect. Let's use an authoritative source, shall we? How about the Department of Energy, instead of Whackjob Political Fantasy Weekly?
Except for the first 20 days of January, the year 2009 was actually during the Obama administration. Even so, the average gasoline price that year was $2.35/gallon, or $2.58 in constant 2015 dollars.
In 2015, which was also during the dark, dreary Obama years, the price per gallon averaged $2.45. To be fair, that did represent an improvement in gas prices over the immediately preceding years of 2011-2014, when gas prices averaged $3.53, $3.64, $3.53 and $3.37, respectively. These prices are the equivalent of $3.75, $3.80, $3.62 and $3.40 in constant 2015 dollars.
By comparison...$2.98/gallon in 2018 actually looks pretty good. The years 2011-2014, smack dab in the middle of the worst of the blighted Obama years, represented high water marks for retail gasoline prices...even higher than the period 1980-1981, a gas price environment that most observers thought could never be duplicated (although Obama, somehow, managed to find a way to do it.)
We cannot help but notice that you failed to include the correct national average figures for 2011-2014 during the Obama administration, for reasons you have yet to adequately or plausibly explain.
Another post of FAUX OUTRAGE by the disgruntled LEFT?
Lets go back a few years and see all the posts on here about gas prices going up from where they were in early 09, speaking about faux outrage. Gas prices dropped dramatically when the economy went off the cliff in late 2008 and many on the right on here blamed Obama for the gas prices going back up as the economy improved. Both sides do it...
With that said, there are many factors that could lead to gas price increases or decreases, and a President might play some role in that, but there are also many factors at play that any President would not have an impact on. Not to mention picking and choosing random starting points, such as the lowest of a certain period, the highest of a certain period, the bottom of the midst of a deep recession, etc is just not a fair or accurate way to make an argument.
$4.10/gal Bush, 2009
$1.69/gal Obama, 2015
$2.98/gal Trump, May 2018
Gas was a lot cheaper under Obama. Politics does have a large role in this because oil markets don't like instability. Trump is such a volatile, unpredictable leader the markets have to price in the risk. Will Trump attack Iran? Will Trump put sanctions on Iran? He roils the markets, causing prices to go up.
Obama and his energy czar promised skyrocketing energy prices and gasoline to equal that of euro prices.
So that was just another of Obama's failures that the media and supporters claim as a positive result.
thank NJ politicians for the supercharged gasoline prices being charged in this state.
If the NJ gas tax does not meet a certain threshold the state raises the tax.
NJ taxpayers have been screwed by NJ dems and repubs with the help of the media never mentioning the threshold and at will raise in the gas tax.
NYTs Chicago business school..... “Changes in U.S. gasoline prices over the past 10 years have predominantly been due to market factors rather than U.S. federal economic or energy policies.”
Your figures are incorrect. Let's use an authoritative source, shall we?
Source was GasBuddy.com. They have no political axe to grind. Their figures are correct.
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