Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don’t Blame Obama
By Julia A. Seymour | April 25, 2011 | 10:20
The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $3.86 on April 25, more than $1-a-gallon higher than a year earlier and less than 25 cents away from the record high price of gasoline set in July 2008.
In fact, per gallon prices are more than $2 higher than when Obama took office Jan. 20, 2009. Yet the president has been nearly exempt from criticism on the issue of rising prices, despite a six-month drilling moratorium and more regulatory hurdles for industry.
The Business & Media Institute found that out of the 280 oil price stories the network evening shows have aired since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, only 1 percent (3 stories) mentioned Obama’s drilling ban or other anti-oil actions in connection with gasoline prices.
Instead of asking whether Obama's anti-oil policies could be increasing the cost of gas, the networks blamed other factors such as Mideast turmoil or the "money game" played by speculators. Certainly, the turmoil in Libya, Egypt and surrounding nations has increased worries about oil production and can influence the price. But the networks also should have looked for explanations much closer to home, like Obama’s many regulatory actions taken against the oil industry.
First there was the drilling ban, which was later overturned by federal courts as illegal. Seahawk Drilling, a Texas-based shallow-water drilling company cited that moratorium as the cause of its bankruptcy filing saying, they “have been adversely affected by the dramatic slowdown in the issuing of shallow-water permits in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo well blowout.”
According to The Heritage Foundation, the Obama administration moved on to a de facto moratorium after the ban was overturned. Add to that the EPA’s desire to regulate the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions and new environmental regulatory hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude from Canada to the U.S. and create many American jobs.
Despite all of these actions on the part of the Obama administration, ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows have barely mentioned them in stories about rising gas prices.
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Well, no...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:26am.
There's a Democrat liberal President to re-elect.
Now, if he were a Republican...well, then it would be different.
See with Democrats in power all that gas tax money etc goes for researching greener ways to do things, so we don't mind $5/gal gas., but with Republicans in power $5/ gal gas benefits Haliburton and the eeeevil Dick Cheneys of the world. Mr Big.
Batter up, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh not exactly
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:32am.
Even locally in Massachusetts during the Boooooooosh gas crisis ...... we were bombarded with reminders on the news where to get the cheapest gas prices.
Now, as they say, cue the crickets.
To blame the BS going on in the middle east is a false canard as the prices have been rising for well over a year and before anyone mentioned the middle east issues.
A presentdent....... can lower taxes on gas, take some from the reserves to HELP A BIT or DO NOTHING LIKE BARRY and he also has squelched any possibility of new drilling.
Sotero, I present strike one, two and three........
Christ he can't pitch worth a bleep, and he swings like a rusty gate as well.
The more I learn about Herman
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:41am.
The more I learn about Herman Cain, the more I like him.
→ VH
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:47am.
Even though he is (according to Cokie Roberts), a Muslim?
Ba da bump
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:55am.
Line of the day Cool arrow..........
Ba da bump
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:55am.
Line of the day Cool arrow..........
Indeed an impressive guy
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:01am.
Van Halen,
indeed Herman Cain is an impressive guy. But he does not get too much coverage from the media as he does not fit the pattern they want, a liberal African American. A conservative one does not compute with them. The same can be said for Michael Williams, running for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Neil Cavuto likes both of them though.
Black conservative = Sellouts according to the real haters
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 4:56pm.
So do I, but I am a white person who hates.................................... black people?????
No, I hate liberals...................
Herman Cain and Mr West are two of my HEROES.
Self made and Conservative.
DAMN, I LIKE THAT.
Remember when Wolf Blitzer
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:41am.
Remember when Wolf Blitzer was dispatched to the White House to announce the exact date and time through the day over a period of days to weeks where he called out Bush's sagging poll numbers?
Remember when the Left sent their JournOLists to the gas stations to camp there and call out at every moment how fast the prices were going up with Bush?
Well, they can ignore it all they want, but the people are seeing it and they know who's in the White House. His poll numbers are a direct reflection of that. They'll remember again when they go to buy food and clothing.
Campaign Promise
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:48am.
Obama has kept at least one campaign promise. He said gas would "have to" go up...
Thanks Mr. President!
Oil's well
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:54am.
Also remember his ENERGY SECRETARY SAID that "our gas prices need to be more like Europes".
Steven Chu stated that and he is getting his wish.
Again though, that would require the media to do their FN jobs and report that FACT.
Imagine if you will, a Bush administrator saying that and gas being 4 bucks a gallon and rising.
Anyone else think that quote would be on repeat reel day after day after day..........................
Obama has kept at least one campaign promise.
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:40am.
Don't forget the sea levels. I think they've stopped rising.
Oh yeah, and he's spread rainbows and puppy farts across the land.
During the Bush years,
Submitted by scottyusmc on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:49am.
whether the price of gas was going up or down, it was reported to be a direct result of the Bush administration. Either he was raising the prices to help his buddies in the oil business or he was lowering the prices to "buy the election." The media always put the Bush administration in the most negative light possible. BOB currently enjoys the silence of the media who have not yet figured out how to position the coverage for his maximum benefit. They are working overtime in preparation for 2012.
Of course
Submitted by mel21221 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:05am.
When Bush was in office, it was all his fault.
With Obama, it is anything or everything BUT Obama. But, they are certainly objective, huh?
Cokehead said that we dont like O-Bozo
Submitted by brutony1 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:09am.
Not because hes a Muslim, cause thats just a ruse-its really because hes black, of course, cokehead! THATS the line, lol!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
I can't believe that Sean
Submitted by billb on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:42am.
I can't believe that Sean Hannity and his staff at Fox, can't search their archives and come up with at least a half hour of video showing pundits reaction to gas prices during the Bush Administration.
And even fewer...
Submitted by almostacowboy77 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:48am.
..will report on the Fed's continued printing of cheap money (if you'll excuse the pun) fueling the "necessarily skyrocket(ing) price of oil.
Of course they won't blame
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:48am.
Of course they won't blame him...DUH!
It's George Bush, Dick Cheney and Big Oil's fault....Geez, get with the program.
I'm just thankful that we will have the Chinese horizontally drilling OUR OIL in the Gulf of Mexico....and we can send our money down to Brazil for oil.....
Is it okay yet to question their patriotism?
Oil prices are rising as a
Submitted by jdhawk on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:54am.
Oil prices are rising as a direct result of this administrations policies. duhbama is actually working to remove nuclear, oil, natural gas, and coal production in this country.
Not only that, but he keeps touting "alternative energy" sources and pushing for ever great subsidies for the same. Never mentioning that none of these so-called "alternative energy" resources of wind, solar, and ethanol could ever fill the gap of loss of nuclear, oil, natural gas, and coal.
What duhama is also not mentioning is what "alternative energy" being put into production is four times the cost of nuclear and fossil fuels.
duhbama is clearly to blame for this debacle both in word and deed.
The lamestream media may not be saying anything, but we all get it.
So, essentially....
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 12:02pm.
...destroying the country.
It Is Not Just Obama's Insane Oil Policy,
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 12:10pm.
That is causing the rise in gas prices. His Insane inflationary spending is causing the price of gas and everything else to rise. Obama's Gasoline Price Commission's Report should be a mirror held up to Obama.
Who Me?
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 12:16pm.
That's Obama....just like Prissy screaming "Miz, Scahlett, I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no baby"....Obama knows nothing about how his (in)actions are destroying this country's economy via his idiotic energy policies.
This was just linked on Drudge: Energy in America: EPA Rules Force Shell to Abandon Oil Drilling Plans
[Emphasis mine]
Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.
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At stake is an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil. That’s how much the U. S. Geological Survey believes is in the U.S. portion of the Arctic Ocean. For perspective, that represents two and a half times more oil than has flowed down the Trans Alaska pipeline throughout its 30-year history. That pipeline is getting dangerously low on oil. At 660,000 barrels a day, it’s carrying only one-third its capacity. (click link to read the rest).
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
Blonde, Bait and switch, Get the companies to invest, then pull
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:32pm.
the plug...
Shell gets to flush 4 billion on that one job. For a stinking air permit...
Boeing finishes a new complex for about a billion?, then gets locked in a court case to move the jobs back to a union state.
And closer to home Hawaii superferry closed due to another court killing it.
No wonder fueling up is like this:
O'bama 0% capital gains @4:58 and so much more.
OMO, upc!
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:46pm.
That fueling up video.....no words, but lots of laughter.
Click the last link, people.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
B,Disturbing sentence in your linkShut down the Alaska pipeline
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 2:29pm.
If the volume gets much lower, pipeline officials say they will have to shut it down.
At least Carter didn't shut down that project when he was President.
Pipeline Quick Facts
The Trans Alaska Pipeline System was designed and constructed to move oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the northern most ice-free port in Valdez, Alaska.
We are seeing the end of the Age Of Oil, by gov edict.
O'bama 0% capital gains @4:58 and so much more.
Nothing to see here, upc
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 2:35pm.
Thanks for pointing that out, I somehow read right by that.
I hope this really infuriates the Congress, to the point that they chop the EPA permanently. I know that shrew Lisa Murkowski is raising hell....as is her democrat colleague. Fox did this report on air as well, and mentioned that all four of the EPA's "Appeal Board" are democrats, and one is an "environmental activist". More foxes in charge of the hen house.
Shut it down.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
We are not !
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 2:40pm.
"We are seeing the end of the Age Of Oil, by gov edict."
All we are seeing is the prohibition of further American participation in the age of oil by government fiat. Oil will continue to be the energy resource with the greatest utility to man going forward, but emphasis on its usage and production will shift offshore unless we can dislodge the worthless leftists who are strangling our domestic oil industry.
Exactly NL*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 3:25pm.
Take a look at the planning going on behind the curtain. Our enemies are negotiating a contract to band together. And please make note, that one of those 59 blocks is closer to the US coast than was the deepwaterhorizon.
Florida and other congressional members are to pleased about this. But then again, Ken Salazar is trying to convince folks not to worry. Does anyone give Salazar an ounce of credibility?
Congress better wake up.
I'd like to give Salazar
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 3:42pm.
the boot! And his boss as well.
Blonde and ups*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:47pm.
I have been screaming for over a year that this man intended to destroy our energy independence. This is necessary to bring down all of our economy. Once you destroy the energy programs then the rest of the economy falls like dominoes. People accused me of wearing a tinfoil hat. Well, I told you so is what is written on the back of the hat.
I suspected he would move this along faster in his second term. Fear of losing the 2012 election now has him moving his plan along like a speeding train.
I know you have been, cajun
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:59pm.
Now is the time to remind them.
You've done a yeoman's job of providing educational links and proof of your assertions, keep it up.
Now, just to make you feel better, go click on upc's last link.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
Alternative Fuel Source
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 1:47pm.
I don't know about everyone else but out here we're using Spotted Owls for gasoline. We'd use Obama supporters but no one is admitting to that massive blunder so they're getting difficult to identify.
Kinda' reminds me of the Carter years!!!
How to find the supporters
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 2:09pm.
That's easy, just look for the vehicles that have the outline of a bumper sticker that was recently peeled off. Look at other vehicles for their bumper stickers, if you see the ones that support the Republicans, chances are the ones peeled off are the ones that supported the Chairman. The O stickers are like bad tattoos.
They can run, but they can't hide.
-Jon
Best bumper sticker for 2012---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 7:34pm.
"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist -
in 2012 you'll have to vote for someone else to prove you're not an idiot."
MD
the price of gas hasn't changed...
Submitted by puredmashie on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 4:28pm.
but only if you measure it in something other than dollars.
if you measure the cost of gas in terms of euros or gold, it's gone down. maybe that's what the plan was all along?
Gas prices
Submitted by MLee2011 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 4:32pm.
Gas prices per gallon in Alaska are over $4.00 (like $4.12 in my area. It is up to $10.00 per gallon in some villages. This is criminal! He won't allow Alaska to drill where the oil is. He would like us to freeze to death apparently.
Who owns America anyway, and who owns Alaska? Who owns your state? I say "We the people own America," and each state should manage its own resources and its own affairs.
Of course, Obama said in an interview (which I saw) that with his energy plan, "Gas prices would necessarily skyrocket." So, this is no surprise. He said it himself, so why does the media say it isn't Obama's fault. It is his PLAN for crying out loud! His plans are working out perfectly as I see it -- to destroy America.
It isn't just about gasoline*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 7:53pm.
Incremental steps, damage the basics of our economy, and then watch the dominoes fall
How much is the Government take on ObamaGas?
Submitted by Retired Geek on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 5:17am.
Many have asked how much of the ObamaGas™ and ObamaDiesel™ per gallon costs are Taxes and NOT the actual costs of drilling, transporting, refining and selling. This does NOT include research and fees for leasing drilling sites.
Many have asked why are ObamaGas™ and ObamaDiesel™ per gallon costs different in my State, City or Locale, from other areas?
The charts in this post should answer most if not all of those questions - see for yourself.
http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/04/gasoline-and-diesel-taxes-combine...