The Price of Gasoline in the USA and Obama's policies

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Gas has been steadily fluctuating between $3.50 and $3.95 here for like two years now. Insert obligatory stupid nigger president not doing anything like a typically stupid nigger comment here.

Gas prices here are around $5.00 atm, but you don't hear me crying like a little bitch.

looks like some testicles photoshopped onto an eagle

That, boys, is a so called Penis Vulture (Gymnogyps Mentula)

I don't care either, since I haven't paid for gasoline in over a decade (company car)

do you all really think that higher oil prices are only about gasoline prices? welcome to inflation!!.. but Obama has this all rigged that he is reaping the benefits of Bushes policies and we will see the damage of Obama's insane policies years down the road, much like Obamacare. and for the record gas prices have never been this high so early in the spring.

I care, I drive, I drive a lot, and have trucks on the roads which will eat in to profitabality or raising of rates

this hurts us common folk and is a hidden tax on all.

I thought Liberals were the mushy " we care for the common folk and all"... so you dont care, because it doesn't effect you? well it does, it manifests itself in many ways as far as the cost of all goods and welfare of a company's solvency.

Are you insane?

yes Bernie will have some head scratchin coming.. QE III? lol

He does now

Of course.. and we could debate if he doing the right or wrong thing.. I liked Greenspan at the time, but history will be the judge..

Huh? my point is again simple.. the cost of oil brings the prices of commodities and transportation up, so even if you dont drive you will still pay more for just about everything... thats inflation and is part of "the rising cost of oil" so its not a matter if "one actually drives themselves"

Right and none of us here know that

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did I mention Bernie? I certainly didnt.. Im not sure Id say he is "great" but thats another debate..

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didn't you say " You didnt care, doesn't effect you? my simple point was about empathy and that it does effect you.

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Tell me a product in the grocery that his not risen..due to the cost of transportation or packaging. simple question

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2008/el2008-31.html#1

look at core inflation

me and my wife do, and prices are going up quickly..companies have to answer to their stock holders and they will pass that cost onto the consumer.. nothing new there

Look at the date of the article.. trust me, its going up

my point is that we are about to enter uncharted territory, we wont have the stats for some years.. but everyone is feeling it with their wallet. when gas hits 5 bucks over the summer if not higher , it will be in everyones face, nobody will be able to miss it. forget about inflation, many Co's will just close up.

we have never had gas prices this high this ealry in the Spring, so I dont truly see how any stats are valid, but inflation is here..

Thats logic

Let's say gas prices do cause an increase on a very large portion of transported goods. I don't think its too unreasonable of a premise, but as I work in production I would take a good guess that most companies are changing their transportation practices and increasing efficiency in order to mitigate this cost. BUT REGARDLESS, how exactly is this inflation? I understand prices are increasing over a broad spectrum, but changes in currency supply and increasing costs aren't necessarily related just because they have a similar outcome. I would say the primary difference between the two is taht raising oil prices does NOT effect all goods and services equally. Therefore, if anything, rising oil prices will lead towards increased use of substitutes (like increased efficiency of vehicles or alternate shipping methods) which is beneficial towards the economy because it makes everything more efficient. This is a classic competitive model, the GOP should be all about letting prices go as they may.

Holy crap I just reread through some of Travis' posts. This is a joke account, its got to be. No one can honestly post a study, say its wrong, and them cite their afternoon trip to the grocery store as counter evidence. Travis, you've used the word "statistics" a few times in this thread, do you even have an inkling of wtf that word means??

http://www.conservapedia.com

LOL. I guess this nigtarded fool doesn't even realize that A) we use far less gas than we have in a LONG time, and B) we now export more than we import.

BUT IT'S TOTALLY OBAMA'S FAULT WE DON'T DRILL MORE.

Here's a flying clue kiddo: Gas is up, because oil is up. Oil is up because of Wall Street speculators that you're too pussified to go after.

http://www.oil-price.net/

Still very high. Granted, even at this price, we should only have ~2.5-3 dollars a gallon, but still.

The irony, as others have pointed out, is that folks like Travis who complain the loudest about how high energy prices are destroying the economy are adamant against cap and trade policies, CAFE standards, appeasement of Iran, and sustainability initiatives. Add the fact that they are against banning speculation and SUVs and it's just more proof they don't really care and can afford to pay more at the pump.

I remember when Romney, in a ludicrous attempt to pander to these people, made the asinine statement that "it's not America-warming, it's global-warming." He actually backed cap-and-trade until then. Most of the GOP did til their base became more and more retarded and brainwashed by anti-green sentiment within the conservative media.

Because OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!11!!111!!