The Los Angeles Times reports today that White House fears gas prices could tank Obama. But they can’t be that worried. Here is a bit from an AP report on yesterday’s energy event in Fairless Hills, PA:
Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.”If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
Instapundit has since noted that the AP has scrubbed this exchange from their website, but earlier versions with this account still exist (including The Huffington Post at this time).
Obama insisted yesterday that “There is no magic formula to driving gas prices down.” That is true. But there are also things the government can do that will drive the price of gas up. And the Obama administration has done many of them including:
Immediately after taking office in 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, canceled 77 leases for oil and gas drilling in Utah.
The EPA announced new rules mandating the use of 36 billion gallons worth of renewable fuels (like ethanol) by 2020.
Read More at Washington Examiner By Conn Carroll, the Washington Examiner
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Typical example of a caring president. Go buy a new car! Azzhole. I can't afford a new used car! All thanks to you and your fricking policies! Not only that, you've given me the death penalty in the deathcare bill, yet you fight to protect illegal aliens and terrorists! I hope you get a terminal disease that takes you in a month! Good Riddence to bad rubbish!
Well Barack not all of us have millions of dollars to just go out and buy a new car and have a huge payment! Most of us are unemployed, under employed or just living from pay check to pay check, what an a$$ this guy is!!
I have no confidence in anything Obama (Barry Soetoro) says. I don't believe the truth is in the man. His narcissistic arrogance exudes from every pore with each haughty pronouncement as he looks down upon his subjects from his throne on high.
Maybe he ought to give up his gas guzzling armored car. Oops, sorry he doesn't pay for the gas we do.
And give up his gas guzzling copter,all his unnecessary trips ro Brazil,Hawaii&many other placesHe probably used more gas thanyou wold in the next 100 years
The president is and should be impeached. first who spends one million dollars to stop people to see his records. he does not believe in the constitution as he breaks rules consistently. While their is a budget problem he is out trying to get votes. He surrounds himself with anti US advisers. What experience does he have with dealing with countries or budgets, he is good at taking vacations. I believe he is a complete fraud and history will prove it. He does not care about the price of oil except that he might lose some votes because of it. remember he came out of chicago politics
it's 2 Million, of your taxes, spent defending his school records, from K to Harvard. what's he hiding? Question his birth certificate, out come the name callers: birther birther birther…… The anti-war president now has us in 3 wars. this creep gives new meaning to fraud!! Air Force One, personally taxi to King Oduechbag. but hey you, peasant, trade that big car or truck that you use to haul your tools or family around in for a GM (government motors) hybrid that you can squeeze in 3 adults and one poodle. and change those lightbulbs to toxic CFL bulbs, and get a toilet that uses only a quart of water so your feces backs up in the pipes and smells like 3Com Park.
don't worry, employment is up, we just hired 15,000 bureaucrats over at the IRS and EPA to sit around thinking of new ideas to take your money and we're working on even more rules to make your life more miserably because out cohorts at GE have some new ergonomic shower heads that only trickle out water at a rate of 3Tps per minute that will be mandatory by 2012. Here's to living the good life in the new USSA United Socialist Staes of America!
Obama!
How many armor plated suburbans go with you?
How many pounds of fuel do you burn when you, your family, your support staff, and friends go to Brazil to play golf and give $3B for Brazil to drill in the Gulf?
Why do we pay for his vacations anyway?.And what kind of deals has he made in Middleast ?
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!! I AGREE WITH all these coments thus far.
For all of you well educated Americans: Obama is the product of the Chicago terrorist group the Weatherman movement lead by William Ayers and company to elect a black President, then have him stroll into the UN(He already has made a trial run at it as he does everything that he does) and declare the white "man" the cause of the coming economic collapse, started by G.W.( by the way, who made the endtime Anti-Christ(Head Marxist) possible) and take over America under Marxism? I don't think so, but who knows? Sorry, but George and G.W. were "dumb and Dumber," weren't they?
obummer is no help any place. He's out to ruin this country.
We might want to trade it in? Hey Barry we don't save any money trading a gas guzzler in for a smaller car that get better gas mileage. What do you want us all to go out and buy a Government Motors Volt that needs recharge every 40 miles. I know you got a free ride and plane, helicopter and 4 miles to the gallon vehicle. Why don't you trade that one in. Did you see him smiling when he answer the question about 4 dollar a gallon gas at the event he said that. He is loving this gas at that price. During his campaign he even said the the price of energy would at least double under his energy plan and no one but a few like me remember that. Wednesday he was smiling from ear to ear cause he has done one thing he promise during his campaign. DOUBLE ENERGY COST>.
I guess cause Ellen and James have tagged this a Birther exclusive site I need to write "Birth Certificate" to make a acceptable post here. They both voted for this loser whom is smiling while he is hurting the less fortunate than him and may I add more honest than him also.
Hey Gary I got a new job cause so many Unicorn siting here someone had to do it. I could train you to cover when I am not here.
Careful–I hear those unicorn horns can be dangerous.
Not as dangerous as being Speaker of the House;
This is on the DNC Facebook site; Let's dump trash at Boehner's pad.
This is real civil discussion; See you got some on the left that don't know how to act either. Ecpecially since this budget they are still working out is left over work form last year when they owned both houses and the White House. Its no wonder as I get older I see that supporting either major party is just being a lemming. Which I must say is less dangerous that Unicorns cuase they just follow and only do what the party tells them. Washington is one screwed up place.
"you got some on the left that don't know how to act either"
True indeed.
"Washington is one screwed up place"
Amen.
Reminds me of you two James!
I find you both refreshingly stupid!
Herding up the unicorns?
“You might want to think about a trade-in.”
OH, you better believe we are, but not our cars. It is YOU Barry who will be traded in, hopefully in a prison cell.
Can I get an Amen??????????…. I agree.
If you can't afford gas, you can't afford a payment on a new car. When the gas went up this high under Bush, the libtard media was calling for his impeachment…O.bungle's gas hikes are met with silence while the Used Car /Snake Oil Salesman in Chief drums up business for his car company, Government Motors. The only trade in I plan to make is scheduled for November, 2012. Kick O.tire out of town.
If my vehicle only gave me 8 miles a gallon, I also would trade it in, you can make a car payment with the gas you would save, So what the president said does not bother me, He also stated it with some humor. Some of these comments are just evil. Our beloved president is doing all he can to settle down the middle east, but I would like to see more drilling in our oil reserves in our own country, its time we do it not save it till the middle east uses up all their oil.
Oh brother!