GOP lawmakers blame Clinton administration for high prices at the pump - June 23, 2000

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GOP lawmakers blame Clinton administration for high prices at the pump

June 23, 2000
Web posted at: 4:34 PM EDT (2034 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republicans called Friday on the Environmental Protection Agency to lift cleaner fuel requirements in places hit hardest with rising gasoline prices and charged that the Clinton administration has long neglected to implement a national energy policy.

http://www.dailyfueleconomytip.com/miscellaneous/president-bush-and-gasoline-prices/

President Bush and Gasoline Prices

September 10th, 2007 | by Brian Carr |

<snip>Regardless, we can save this conversation for another time. In the meantime, let’s get back to actual data regarding gas prices.

When President Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the national average gas price was $1.46 per gallon. Six and a half years later, on August 27, 2007, the national average gas price had jumped to $2.76, roughly 89% higher. Compounded annually, this represents about a 10% jump each year Bush has been in office.

Now, let’s compare the numbers over the same time period for President Clinton.

When Clinton took office on January 20, 1993, the national average gas price was $1.06 per gallon. six and a half years later, the national average gas price had jumped to $1.22, roughly 15% higher. Compounded annually, this represents about a 2% jump each year.

Even when you compare all of Clinton’s term (38% jump overall) against the first six and a half years of Bush’s term, the overall jump in gas prices between the two presidents isn’t even close. In order to meet Clinton’s “numbers” gas prices would have to fall to $2.02 per gallon - or roughly 36%.

[islandmkl]

1. you can't even do the math today....the goddam prices rise so fast..

that 1 hour ago's numbers are no longer relevant....

a barrel full of money to buy a gallon of gas, anybody?

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Blame Reagan for removing President Carter's Energy policy

Consider President Jimmy Carter's April 18, 1977 speech. Since it was given nearly three decades ago, when many of the reporters in Bush's White House were children, it's understandable that they don't remember it. But it's inexcusable that Bush and the mainstream media (which, after all, has the ability to do research) would completely ignore it. It was the speech that established the strategic petroleum reserve, birthed the modern solar power industry, led to the insulation of millions of American homes, and established America's first national energy policy. "With the exception of preventing war," said Jimmy Carter, a man of peace, "this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes."


And Ronald Reagan's first official acts of office included removing Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the roof of the White House, and reversing most of Carter's conservation and alternative energy policies.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0503-22.htm

[Juche]

3. It didn't start jumping until 2004

Here are the oil prices. It was stable until around 2004



Alot of the rise is due to growing global demand (India & China), the decline of the USD making imports more expensive and the tensions in the mideast that the Bush admin is helping to fan.

Two of these can be blamed in part on Bush. The global demand is not his fault though.

[zbdent]

4. and I remember the "terror" that the Repukes were predicting ...

shudder ...

"gas could reach $1.80 a gallon under Gore!!!"