Challenging times demand timely challenges. And just as JFK once spurred the country to greatness with words of leadership, wisdom and inspiration -so now has BO laid forth his challenge to this nation of ours. But instead of merely landing a man on the moon and returning him safely Obama has given the country a far more exacting mandate. He wants to know why gas costs so much, and he wants to make sure no funny stuff is going on with the markets.
Marketwatch has the score:
President Barack Obama ordered a probe into potential gasoline price-gouging on Friday and said the government is watching for manipulation in oil markets.
Speaking at a White House press conference, Obama said he’s asked his attorney general and U.S. government agencies to work with state attorneys general to monitor for gasoline-price gouging, “to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of working families at the pump.”
As good American subjects, we here at IHateTheMedia.com have heard the President’s call and will answer.
Dear Mr. Obama:
Gas prices are high for a number of reasons. Here are some of the biggies:
1. You’ve decreased supply by banning drilling in the Gulf and ANWR. There has been no such similar decrease in demand. Scarcity of the resource has increased its value.
2. Congress has mandated the combining of gasoline with ethanol. This ethanol has led to food shortages across the world. These food shortages have resulted in the destabilization of oil producing nations. Speculation on the further scarcity of oil, due to regional difficulties, has greatly increased the price of gasoline.
3. The government taxes the hell out of it.
4. Your economic policies have destroyed the value of the dollar. As a consequence it takes more of them to buy every barrel of oil.
With warmest personal regards,
The Guys at IHateTheMedia.com
P.S.: Please say hi to Barney Frank and tell her we really think she’s a swell gal.
Oh, my god, we crack ourselves up.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: MarketWatch.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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As time passes, Obama is becoming Jimmy Carter.
You are behind the times Ray! He has already asscended to the the throne of "dumbest president ever" that the peanut farmer has stood on for over 30 years. What scares me is he has two more years to go before we can vote him out.
Why don't we inpeach the bastard?!?
A one-term president?
ONE CAN ONLY HOPE!!
Don't worry, Numbnuts will appoint a committee of worthless phucks to diddle around for six months, piss away several million dollars , and come up with nothing. But, Numbnuts looking into it sounds good to the Lapdogs and nitwits.
It's funny how they tax the hell out of what, these days, is basically a necessity.
The strong rhetoric from Bama is show and tell for his witless stooges, (made up mostly of Kool-Aid drinking union thug mascots and other non-thinking non-essentials). He know exactly what's causing the gas prices to spike, it's just a shame that so many of his faithful lap dogs don't!
Are these people keeping an eye out for "funny stuff" the same or similar to the ones who kept an eye out for "funny stuff" all the previous times no one noticed anything?
When gas prices were high when Bush was President, it was Bush's fault.
Now that gas prices are high with Obama as "president", it's ANYONE else's fault.
You hit the nail right on the head with that one Pierce!
I know a simpleton who was constantly bitching & moaning about gas prices during the post Katrina/Ivan days, and was so convinced GWB had a 'magic button' in the Oval Office that he could push to make the price of oil go up, that he joined the dumbocrat party and voted for Obongo. That tirade about the 'magic oil button' went on incessantly for over three months...
Flash forward to the present...
I spoke with said idiot last week when gas prices around my neck of the woods went up to $3.00 or more and he was raising helll about it. I asked him if GWB left that magic button in the Oval Office for his boy Obongo to push...
His response was a confused look and a stammered, "Magic Button?"
...My, how soon they forget...
Obama only needs to look into a mirror if he wants to know why gas prices are so high.