With Gas Prices Expected To Drop Below $3, Republicans Suddenly Silent On Obama's Role
ProudProgressive
2012/06/26 11:30:29
With Gas Prices Expected To Drop Below $3, Republicans Suddenly Silent On Obama's Role
By Rebecca Leber
Jun 25, 2012
Experts predict average gas prices may fall below $3 this fall after dropping 14 cents in two weeks. When prices hit a record high, Republicans attributed sole responsibility to President Obama, even though there is no evidence that factors like drilling impact what consumers pay.
Just two months ago, Republicans said Obama shouldered the blame for rising gas costs, and that only he had the "key" to lower gas prices:
Mitt Romney, March 18, 2012: "He gets full credit or blame for what's happened in this economy, and what's happened to gasoline prices under his watch, and what's happened to our schools, and what's happened to our military forces. All these things are his responsibility while he's president."
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), April 6, 2012: "The president holds the key to addressing the pain Ohioans are feeling at the gas pump and moving our nation away from its reliance on foreign energy. My question for the president is: what are you waiting for?"
Boehner, April 6, 2012: "The president's own policies to date have made matters worse and driven up gas prices."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Feb. 28 2012: "This President will go to any length to drive up gas prices and pave the way for his ideological agenda."
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), March 13, 2012: Obama is "fully responsible for what the American public is paying for gasoline."
Are Republicans now reversing their rhetoric and giving Obama credit for falling gas prices? Of course not.
Former Virginia Sen. George Allen, who is running to reclaim his old seat, is another lawmaker who has misled on the gas prices. Last month, ThinkProgress reported that Allen is pushing a graphic that not only compares gas prices to an artificially low amount, but lists a "current" price from April, even though Virginia gas prices are now more than 40 cents lower per gallon.
Obama's policies haven't changed since April: the Keystone XL pipeline has not been built, drilling hasn't drastically changed, and the same regulations are in place. Yet gas prices have fallen. Economics says he isn't responsible, either way.
By Rebecca Leber
Jun 25, 2012
Experts predict average gas prices may fall below $3 this fall after dropping 14 cents in two weeks. When prices hit a record high, Republicans attributed sole responsibility to President Obama, even though there is no evidence that factors like drilling impact what consumers pay.
Just two months ago, Republicans said Obama shouldered the blame for rising gas costs, and that only he had the "key" to lower gas prices:
Mitt Romney, March 18, 2012: "He gets full credit or blame for what's happened in this economy, and what's happened to gasoline prices under his watch, and what's happened to our schools, and what's happened to our military forces. All these things are his responsibility while he's president."
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), April 6, 2012: "The president holds the key to addressing the pain Ohioans are feeling at the gas pump and moving our nation away from its reliance on foreign energy. My question for the president is: what are you waiting for?"
Boehner, April 6, 2012: "The president's own policies to date have made matters worse and driven up gas prices."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Feb. 28 2012: "This President will go to any length to drive up gas prices and pave the way for his ideological agenda."
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), March 13, 2012: Obama is "fully responsible for what the American public is paying for gasoline."
Are Republicans now reversing their rhetoric and giving Obama credit for falling gas prices? Of course not.
Former Virginia Sen. George Allen, who is running to reclaim his old seat, is another lawmaker who has misled on the gas prices. Last month, ThinkProgress reported that Allen is pushing a graphic that not only compares gas prices to an artificially low amount, but lists a "current" price from April, even though Virginia gas prices are now more than 40 cents lower per gallon.
Obama's policies haven't changed since April: the Keystone XL pipeline has not been built, drilling hasn't drastically changed, and the same regulations are in place. Yet gas prices have fallen. Economics says he isn't responsible, either way.
Read More: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/25/505369...
It's supply and demand.
President has no control over market forces and demand from overseas.
I just wish he would've temporarily lowered the gas taxes and tapped the reserves in order to keep prices low during the recession.
I will believe it when I see it. Gas prices should really be at about 2.75 a gallon. With the price of a barrel of oil at 78.00 dollars, the price of gas should be lower. If predictions come true of the price per barrel below 70.00 dollars, the price at the pump should be 2.25 to 2.50.
one thing the people who support Obama never, ever claimed was that Bush invented a time machine, traveled back to the time before his birth and planted an article in a newspaper in his "ostensible" home town. that has been cooked up entirely by the Obama-bashers.