We did drill our way to $2 gas.
OilPro: “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices,” President Obama told an audience four years ago at the University of Miami. Like this year, it was an election year and Obama was running for re-election. Later in his speech, he added: “anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn’t know what they’re talking about, or just isn’t telling you the truth.” He scoffed at the Republicans for believing that drilling would result in $2 gasoline—remember this was when prices at the pump, in many places,spiked to more than $4 a gallon: “You can bet that since it is an election year, they’re already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I’ll save you the suspense: Step one is drill, step two is drill, step three is drill.”
Well, Mr. President, you owe America, and the Republicans, an apology. Your snarky comments were wrong. The Republican’s supposed three-point plan, which you mocked, was correct. more
h/t Flaming Hetero.
Obama’s Command of simple economics is equal to a community activitst’s command. Oh, wait.
Not only does he owe America an apology, but we in turn owe the world an apology. Our stupidity has cost everyone in the free world.
Going on 8 years and still full of shit
“Drill, baby drill” was indeed mocked.
When can we frog-march this damn fool out of the White House?
Can congress drawn up an eviction notice ASAP?
Just filled up…$1.45 a gallon! Drill, Baby Drill!
1.45? You lucky b@stard. I have to pay 2.45 for no corn premium here. 1.75 here for the cheap crap, the corned gas
Corn squeezins is down to $1.39 per gal in my county. About a buck and a half for corn-free gas.
Fuck 0bama.
Bad Brad and I pay $1.18 per gallon in taxes!
All Too Much, That depends. If you live in Northern California I believe they’re still charging .07 cents a gallon for that earthquake that occurred in 1998. Fing Cali, never met a tax our socialist leaders didn’t like.
If I remember Clinton was busy laying pipe while at the same time refusing to drill.
Actually it wasn’t pipe. It was small diameter tube.
Of all places for gas to be cheap, Polson, Mt. at the bottom of Flathead Lake gas is $1.54 a gal. for unleaded. Polson is also on a pipeline and an Indian reservation which may be one reason it’s so inexpensive. And diesel is well under $2 a gal. in most places I’ve seen lately. And CDA, Id. is in the $1.60 range. We’re at about $1.74 a gallon here in the Spokane area.
The bigger reason is that the Saudis are keeping their prices DOWN ARTIFICIALLY to kill off competition (including our shale oil industry). They can’t keep on this path for more than about a year, so hold your hats, folks.
Of course now the SOB is trying to take credit for lowering gas prices.
I had been thinking that the high gas prices were just another way for obamboozler and his arab/moslem friends to eff up our economy and drive up prices of everything. Now the arabs have a glut of oil, and as usual with Americans, where there’s a will there’s a way – so we were going after alternative oil sources, so their plan was backfiring.
It’s a Dummycrat thing.
Jimmy Carter also said we would run out of oil in fifty years.
Dummycrats are anti science
I paid $1.98 in California yesterday. I can’t even remember the last time gas was that low here. I don’t expect it to last, though.
It. Will. Not. Last.