Americans for Prosperity (Koch Bros) "cheap gas" stunt in Reno.

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

More like cheap stunt. It is particularly offensive considering how RMoney just announced his meh-ness toward the 47%ers that showed up to get a break on gas prices.

Blech.

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From the article:

The cheap gas offered by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity in Reno on Tuesday was a political event designed to blame President Barack Obama’s energy policies for driving up the cost of petrol.

But many of the scores of people who lined up around the block to fill up their tanks at $1.84 a gallon didn’t come for politics. They didn’t blame Obama for the gas prices. They just needed cheap gas.

One woman pulled up with a car full of three children, eager to save the 30 bucks on gas — money that would go toward school clothes for her kids. She said her family lives on $1,700 a month.

“This isn’t Obama’s fault. It’s everyone’s fault,” said Kaylen Hartshorn, of Reno. “You can’t elect one man and expect him to solve a million people’s problems. Everybody needs to do their part, help their neighbors.”



http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/sep/19/cheap-gas-political-stunt-draws/

[rsweets]

1. kind of backfired didn't it

what a quote ...

“This isn’t Obama’s fault. It’s everyone’s fault,” said Kaylen Hartshorn, of Reno. “You can’t elect one man and expect him to solve a million people’s problems. Everybody needs to do their part, help their neighbors.”

[rfranklin]

3. Actually it is the Koch brothers fault...they have been driving prices up with speculation...

on the commodity markets....

Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that regulates commodity futures and option trading in the United States, says a very few number of players control too much of the market, allowing them to push the price of gas higher and higher. The American public knows very little about the oil speculation industry because a conservative majority on the CFTC has refused to implement the mandates from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to curb abuses and provide transparency.

One of those players is the petrochemical multinational Koch Industries. Although oil extraction is a small part of the Koch’s oil business the company has major control over every other part of the market as its core venture is shipping crude oil, refining it, distributing it to retailers, then speculating on the future price. The company actively trades about 50 types of crude oil around the world and has trading operations in London, Geneva, Singapore, Houston, New York, Wichita, Rotterdam, and Mumbai.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/26/how-the-gas-prices-are-manipulated-by-the-koch-brothers-and-other-wall-street-players/

[nanabugg]

2. This proves my point from an earlier post. The price of gasoline is controlled by Koch

If they can sell it for 1.84 in Reno, they could do it eslewhere. Don't they undersstand that it proves that the Koch brothers and others are holding the country in economic bonddage so Mitt can be elected?

[Panasonic]

4. I heard that they all went for the cheap gas, and not APP bullshit.

This is the kind of money SuperPAC's buy to woo the voters, and failing to do so miserably.

Koch Brothers should be under heavy indictment for oil manipulation, all assets frozen and returned to the U.S. Treasury, nationalize all Koch Brothers companies, authorize union membership on all Koch Brothers companies, then return it to the Koch Brothers, 50 billion less, and nothing to steal.

[SalviaBlue]

5. Kinda shows who exactly control the prices.

[jsr]

6. A few crumbs from their table

for the 47%.

[B Calm]

7. I would have brought a bunch of gas cans too!

Pretty rare when you can stick it to the rich bastards. .

[Blue Idaho]

8. If the Koch Bros want to subsidize gas prices I say

lets bleed the fuckers dry.

[Lint Head]

9. This proves gas prices can be manipulated. The oil companies want Obama to lose and they jack up

prices when it is convenient.

[maxrandb]

10. Wait...if they can do this for one day

Can't they do this EVERYDAY!!!!!

The poor dears...wasting all that money on a losing candidate and political party.

I thought these were supposed to be the "smart investment" types.

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

11. Not just one day, another stunt scheduled in LV on Thu, per updated article

Americans for Prosperity is holding a similar event in Las Vegas from 7:30-9 a.m. Thursday at the Speedee Mart on West Desert Inn Road.