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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheap gas...
Another thing President Obama doesn't get credit for...Yeah, I know the president doesn't control gas prices but he would be getting roasted if the price of gas was up...
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Cheap gas... (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2014
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. People are still running around with this bumper sticker from years ago:
What's odd to me is that I was paying up to $4.00 when I bought my 2007 Prius.
That was in 2007!
Hmmm, who was president then?
It's under $4.00 now.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)4. Under Bush leadership it was close to $5.00 pg here.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)8. In CT, it's still closer to $4 in most parts (nt)
underpants
(182,824 posts)2. The media only mentions it when it goes up
I saw $2.69 ethanol free gas last Monday. Sadly it was in a return trip and I had just gotten gas. Damn!!
unblock
(52,243 posts)3. are you better off now than you were four years ago?
people went ape when reagan used this to compare 1984 to 1980.
what a joke! obama should be king by those standards.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)5. answer is HELL YES! Why anybody would want to screw up
the economy now is beyond me.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)6. Let me prefsce my remarks by saying everything is relative...
But somebody has done a great job convincing folks these are awful times...
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)7. Here's the graph that reveals the lie and cherry picking of data.
Thanks to politifact: http://www.politifact.com/subjects/gas-prices/
The highest prices EVER were under GW Bush!
There happened to be a momentary dip, that's the low that people claim was what Obama started with (a lie).