Thursday, December 4, 2008

So are Low Gas Prices Bush's fault too?

Hey! Mr. Lefty Liberal Bush-haters!

Gasoline is selling nationally for around $1.80 per gallon and oil (today) was trading for around $43.00/bbl. Since Bush is still in the White House, is it Bush's fault? Funny, I haven't heard a single libby source (CNN, DailyKOS, MoveOn, MSNBC, etc ad nauseaum) crediting the Bush Administration with lower fuel prices.

OK. I'm being a little capricious. I know EXACTLY why gas prices are down. It's because Americans (as well as people in other nations) are buying a LOT less fuel because of the economic melt-down.

But what really steams my taters is that when gas prices were high, nobody was blaming it on the true culprits, which were low supply, high demand from Americans driving cars that only get 12-17 mpg because they love their muscle cars, trucks, SUVs and big luxury sedans.

Americans have become so poorly educated that they are swallowing the swill being provided by the main media outlets without doing their own fact-checking or even using their natural ability to reason. The President, influential though he is, can no more control our economy than flap his arms to fly to the moon. CONGRESS has much more influence over economic policy. The President is, by design, our chief Law-enforcement executive. Other than by collecting fines for traffic tickets, since when did any law-enforcement agency ever contribute to our economy?

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