I thought the Koch Brothers would be enjoying high gas prices along with the rest of the big oil industry.

One would think that they would literally thank President Obama instead of blaming him 'cause they are making mega profits!

President Obama, I guess, is the reason big-oil is making record profits that they don't like?......I'm confused!

The American Energy Alliance -- a group with reported ties to the conservative Koch Brothers

Does an alliance consist of one Koch group running the whole show?

I wonder how much of every $5.00 per gallon gas, goes directly into the pockets of The American Energy Alliance?

Yet Obama and Chu want your Kochie Monsters to make another $3-$4 a dollars gallon!

Obama and Chu are the ones intentionally driving up the price of gas. They are the ones that stated their policies would cause the prices to necessarily skyrocket. They are the ones that have admitted they are doing nothing to control the cost of gas.

Aren't they the ones making the oil companies rich?

Didn't see that coming, either?

As the swamp possum suggests .... you have met the enemy and the enemy is yourself.

President's don't control the price of gas in the current system.

I wish they did (by nationalizing that sucker), but they don't.

So no, bob-lotsanumbers. They're not making oil companies rich. Oil companies are making oil companies rich.

It's a perversion of supply and demand. Supply and (artifically inflate/deflate) Demand is the new rule of thumb.

Speculators must go.

Bob -

Obama and Chu are the ones intentionally driving up the price of gas.

How so? What facts do you have that they have any impact on gas prices, much less are intentionally driving up the prices.

They are the ones that stated their policies would cause the prices to necessarily skyrocket.

Wrong Again. It was stated that "Cap and Trade" (which was never passed) would increase electricity prices, nothing was ever said about gas prices.

They are the ones that have admitted they are doing nothing to control the cost of gas.

Another "factual inaccuracy". Obama has mentioned numberous times his "all of the above" policy. Hillary negotiated a new agreement to open up more driling areas in the gulf. I could go on and on but obviously you prefer to ignore facts and post fiction.

Chilled,

Aside from messing with the obtuse above, the real reason for the escalation of energy prices last year and the record high seasonal base line today is primarly Obama's butchering of the value of the dollar with QE1 and QE2.

Conseguently, in real terms the oil companies are not richer in real terms - hence their desire for the freedom to drill more, the freedom to produce more, the freedom to get richer. (Freedom is such an evil thing ...)

Obama and Chu screwed up their plans with their economic ignorance .... the prices were not supposed to rise this much before the elections.

Now they are facing the problem of future supply that they have crushed.

Karma's a bitch, huh? (Well that and ignorance, ignoring the will of the people ....)

TNSEVOL, all you need to do is listen to their own words. They have both stated that they want higher gas prices, as high as Europe ( 10.00+ ) a gallon.

teknishan -

President's don't control the price of gas in the current system.

The president of the country with the world's richest energy reserves can not effect price?

The Bakken holds more oil than all of OPEC combined!

How moronic.

I wish they did (by nationalizing that sucker), but they don't.

So you are a socialist?

It's a perversion of supply and demand. Supply and (artifically inflate/deflate) Demand is the new rule of thumb.

Speculators must go.

So you want throw out the global market sytem?

Do you not realize that bread, bacon, sugar, .... lithium for Obama batteries .... on and on and on are commodities priced on future availbility - future supply and demand?

Gee bob#####,

Your posts are really discombobulated.

You do manage to get in all the TeaPeople talking points like 'freedom', 'butchering', 'crushing' 'will of the people'!

So, ya' got any more talking points?

Hey Bob....it's Friday. Lighten up, lose the garbage. Pretty please.

TNSEVOL -

How so? What facts do you have that they have any impact on gas prices, much less are intentionally driving up the prices.

Remember when prices spiked in the past because a hurricane would interrupt production in the Gulf?

Obama HAD A NEEDLESS MORATORIUM ON THE GULF.

Obama has cancelled leases on the continent, Obama had a moraorium on the Gulf, has cancelled drilling on the east coast, the west coast, Alaska - PRODUCTION ON FEDERAL LANDS IS DOWN.

Obama has prevented and even actively lobbied against a stupid pipeline!

Obama has mentioned numberous times his "all of the above" policy. Hillary negotiated a new agreement to open up more driling areas in the gulf. I could go on and on but obviously you prefer to ignore facts and post fiction.

Sheesh .... you don't understand the difference between what Obama says and actually does .... the difference between bull shlt and reality?

Have they forgotten WHO was President the Last time it went UP$$ ?? Or, we produce more now then EVER before?? Or, the Keystone Pipeline means not many JOBS, but LOTS of $DOLLARS$ to CANADA and Grover Norquist??? (the #1 lobbyist for the pipeline)

Guess I'm a socialist then.

A nice, 2%-er socialist.

Good catch, bob.

That or I can wield my education enough to note that there are some things private organizations do best, and some things the government can do best, and want those areas categorized according to attribute.

The problem arises when the misinformation fed to you for so long, by your vaunted party, has short-circuited something vital called 'self-interest'. As a scientist-type, and a B2C owner, I can rightfully say that I want more people to have more money in their wallets. I understand that shifting the tax burden upwards, and providing for basic necessities, frees up spending capital amongst my consumer demographic. I want the government to provide for those, since it is the only entity which can truly take on macro-economic concerns.

So.

Socialist it is.

Just like Jobs, Gates, Buffet, Cook, Zuckerburg and other scientist/commerce-types. We're all socialists together, fella.

So where does the government spend its $32 billion dollars a year it receives in fuel taxes? You would think with that kind of money the government could provide the needed infrastructure he was asking for in his "promise" to get Americans back working.

JK,

It is estimated that we need to spend $2.2 trillion over the next 5 years just to elevate our reliability grade from a “D” to a “B”.

That is $440 billion a year 13 times the expected gas taxes.

bob, thanks for going to the trouble to try and give facts to liberals. They don't want them and they don't understand them. They'd rather make up their own facts and go with them. I've given up on trying to straighten liberals out, it does no good, facts just get in their way. I just say what I have to say and let liberals do what liberals do. I'm glad you have patience to tolerate fools.

Dennis,

So again, I ask, where is the $32 billion being spent? Perhaps we should ask where the money is spent and if it's being spent wisely before we ask for more money, right?

JK,

It goes to 2 places

The interstate highway system plus national highways

Back to the states as proportional amounts – less populated
states get a larger percentage of the pie.

I wonder how much of every $5.00 per gallon gas, goes directly into the pockets of The American Energy Alliance?

Certainly, not as much as goes in the government's coffers. The government makes more off a gallon of gas than the people that produce and deliver it.

Rob where did you find that break-down so we can check it out?

Americans First-3238795

Rob where did you find that break-down so we can check it out?

don't hold your breath. Rob never provides any. He just throws it out there and hopes it stick. Kind of like all these Republican "informercials" against Obama. Lots of money but zero truth. Rob learns from the best BSers

That is what I figured Bayllie, but thought I would just give him a chance to back up his outrageous statement.

I guess when all you got is lies and more lies that is all you got. Wow Rob, is that really how you want to represent the republican party as a known liar? How's that working for you?

With the Iran Obama policy, gas should increase in price, due to panic on the spot market.

If it does, then can we hold Barry accountable for this? Or should we place the blame on the Kochs, the oil companies, or the marketeers?

bayllie,

Nice to see that you and the Democrats absolve yourself of any BS... I suppose that everything said by a Democrat is gospel??

winemaker,

Actually he is enforcing the law passed by Congress just a couple months ago. So if the price of gas goes up you can blame the Congress including the Republican House.

winemaker,

Actually he is enforcing the law passed by Congress just a couple months ago. So if the price of gas goes up you can blame the Congress including the Republican House.

JK1963

Nice to see that you and the Democrats absolve yourself of any BS... I suppose that everything said by a Democrat is gospel??

check out what Karl Rove and his Crossroads have been doing and then get back to me.

Bayllie,

Why can't you even answer a simple question? Is that too hard without your usual deflection? I suppose so, since everything you say is supposedly the truth. Try and stop being a cheerleader for one side....

The replacement is" Romney Care" .

I think Willard is lieing, there will be no healthcare reform from him.

They have no plan

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Bloomberg News that Republicans would be happy to repeal Obamacare without replacing it.

Willard's eyes are brown.

And so what if Obamacare isn't replaced? It was bad legislation that allowed government intrusion into our lives. I hope it crashes and burns. Once we are rid of this obamanation, then the next one needs to fall. We'll have to wait until November for that to occur.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Bloomberg News that Republicans would be happy to repeal Obamacare without replacing it.

No plan is a hellavu lot better than ObummerCare.

What does my daughters student loan have to do with her healthcare and/or health insurance anyway???

No tort reform included in ObummerCare???? Liberal cowards and their big lawyer base?

I cannot buy insurance across state lines?

And, the cutest thing..........tanning bed tax....lmao....DumbFux

Yes, yes, you libs really fixed everything alright.

They LIE

if they offer no replacement.

I am not a liberal.

The cost of health care will bankrupt our country faster,
sooner than any other issue/problem we currently face.

Fix it or we all lose!!

Dennis,

I agree. Sad, the GOP has no plan.

Dennis, Columbus, Ohio

The cost of health care will bankrupt our country faster,
sooner than any other issue/problem we currently face.

Fix it or we all lose!!

*Agreed

*Fix it CORRECTLY!

And as proven by other industrialized countries the only way to have the best impact on price is with a single payer system – just what our President wanted to start with.

Dennis,

The wars are actually bankrupting us faster than healthcare

The cost of health care currently is equal to the entire Defense Budget.

But the projected cost of HC is increasing at more than 3 times that of defense.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/budget_pie_gs.php

Michael1969, many states have enacted tort reform on their own, some of them have made very drastic measures to the ability to file a lawsuit.

Show me one them, just one of them, that has lowered the premiums of insurance, be it automotive, healthcare or malpractice.

@ Dennis

The cost of health care will bankrupt our country faster,
sooner than any other issue/problem we currently face.

Fix it or we all lose!!

You are spot on, Dennis. There is no arguing the point. What we the people seem to be at odds with is in what is the best approach to take to overcome the astronomical cost.

The thing that strikes me the most about all the suggestions, right or left, from our elite political class in this country is that no one seems to adequately address the underlying problem of why medical procedures are so costly and physician's fees are so grossly outrageous.

Rather, they are focused on the cost of insurance and widening the expanse of insurance coverage. The reason insurance costs are so high is that the companies have to bear the outlandish charges for medical services in this country. Until the root cause of these excessive costs are addressed, we will continue to have problems no matter how much we punish the insurance companies or punish the taxpayers.

Dennis

I beg to differ, The defense costs are ALWAYS about double to triple what the government tells you the "budget" is. This is an old example but the practice gets used EVERY YEAR.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1253

here is info on hidden costs

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/gordon-adams/the-true-cost-us-defense-spending

http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/hasc-panel-report-highlights-hidden-costs-in-defense-acquisition-system?a=1&c=1171

BTW when is the last time our government actually stuck to a "budget"? When was the last time they had an accurate "projected cost"?

The first link was to a 2004 report when Bush didn't even
include the wars as part of the budget – they were funded separately.

The second was 2008 and the wars were still separate from the budget.

The third one while dated this year references a 1994 report.

Yes defense overruns are common place but so are medical cost overruns.

Isn't irony wonderful! Too bad high gas prices always fall in the lap of the president. I hope they go to 6 bucks a gallon before the election. I wouldn't mind paying my fair share to get rid of Obama.

Could it possibly be that Big Oil is pushing the price of oil up before the election? Brian, you might be on to something here.

We have lots of supply and demand is down - why else would the price of oil go up. Unless..... it helped get a friend of Big Oil into the White House!

Great point Belfast Lad, I wouldn't put anything past this radical right, because they are as low down as they come. I keeping hoping that we will get a big surprise, and soon hear that the Justice Dept. has charged these people with price fixing, while ripping off the American People.

Are you kidding? We sacrifice peoples lives for the rich. The rich are our pantheon of gods. Human sacrifices for them are our Republican duty. The elderly and the poor need toi be eradicated.

Gee, Affinity---you are straying from the playbook there. How will the rich GOP get richer on the backs of the poor and middle class if they are eradicated? Better check with the DNC before typing!

The Rich are our Pantheon of the Gods??? Seriously Affinity. Don't let that liberal mindset steal your future. This is America you can be successful based on your own merits. I was a barley medicore student at a 2 year college and I'm living well in Iowa.....

That's only because it's a very LONG road UP from the bottom of the MESS he inherited?? With NO help from the Party of "NO"??

Dahly, please do go on because your "facts" are warped to make your talking points.

1 Obama did not say that employment would not go above 8%

2 Gallup must be using a different criteria because unemployment is 8.3% and falling. Comparisons only make sense if you use the same set of criteria.

3. Gasoline was above $4 per gallon during the GWB era. It fluctuates due to market demand and at the whims of the Middle East and Big Oil - not this or any previous President has control over world markets. If Obama did have the control, can you and I agree that this would be an EXCELLENT time to have the price of gas drop?.

But - please do go on.

This is just a History lesson. I am sending it to all regardless of party .
I bet I know who wouldn't read it -- those afraid of the truth. It is history and nothing can change it.
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007,
the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start
of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the
103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that
everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the House:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
Remember that day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House
Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney ) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and
4.6% Unemployment...to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars
of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie -starting in 2001 because it was
financially risky for the US economy). Barney blocked it and called it a "Chicken Little Philosophy"
(and the sky did fall!)
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress,
especially BARNEY!!!!
So when someone tries to blame Bush...
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Bush may have
been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were
driving the economy into the ditch.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from
Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on
spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing
resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they
passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget.
And where was Barack Obama during this time?
He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he
signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked
like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the
Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit
spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama,
who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. ! ! !
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for, and then I voted to expand
that deficit four-fold since January 20th."
There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends this information on!
"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those
who vote for a living."

So everything the President said he was going to do, and didn't, is not because he is in way over his head and just very foolish for saying it in the first place, And since his word is worthless, we should all believe him now?

REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Bush may have
been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were
driving the economy into the ditch.

One simple fact is the President signs the bills into law and not Congress.

Did you miss the part about the continuing resolutions?

Another simple fact. President Obama is a proven liar, incompetent to the task at hand and was and is unqualified for any Leadership position. What percentage of Americans are better off today, than when he first took office? Few, very few.

Did you miss the part about the continuing resolutions?

The continuing resolutions provide funding for existing federal programs at current or reduced levels. Still laws and bills are signed by the President.

President Obama, a clear winner for America, which is an actual fact.

How many are better off? "It's the Economy Stupid!"

Dahly, the economy is getting better. It would be better yet had the republicans done anything except fight for tax cuts for the rich.

The rich 1% are way better off and got like 87% of all the growth in our country has gone to the rich. So the poor are getting very little of the growth trickled down on them. All the people have gotten is a slow drop of the unemployment rate.

Best part yet, the republicans want to make this problem worse. Raise your taxes to pay for more tax cuts for the rich while the Rand plan destroys anything that might even resemble a safety net for the people. If that is the economy you want then vote for a republican because they plan on all the money going to the rich too.

VOTE FOR AMERICA....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

I find it interesting that all that money was spent on an ad about the price of gas. What if the price goes down? What happens to their investment in the ad? Doesn't that mean they control the price and will guarantee that the price stays high so their ad will have maximum impact?

Oil companies can and do set the prices they charge, just like any other business is entitled to do. What they do not control is the prices they must pay for crude oil on the open market. They also do not control the costs of refinement unless they refine it themselves.

Because oil was much lower than $100 a barrell then you idiot! Get a life schmuck!

He'll fool many voters again ....

But surely not as many .... mike ....

AHHHHH, let the name calling begin. So if oil prices are low, tax subsidies are a good thing, but if they are high, subsidies are bad? Why, oh why, didn;t the Dems end them when they had the power and prices were rising during the first 2 years of Obama's term? And how does that explain ANYTHING about the debt ceiling flip-flop?

That is not the sole issue for the SCOTUS vote ....

Best not confuse them with what the SC is actually being asked to rule on. Don't want to boggle their minds with facts and reasoning.

Do you remember just over two years ago that 85% of people were satisfied with their health care? I think we can help that 15 % with less than 1.? Trillion dollars. Just my thought.

Yes, Pat, we all may loose big time - even any Republicans who may need medical care!

Well, apparently the left thinks so, otherwise why get so worked up about a few tv ads?

And once again---disagreeing with the policies of the Obama Administration does not automatically make you a racist, despite your outcries. Apparently you do not understand the reason for the ads. The "GOP/FOX" people you cite are ALREADY not going to vote for Obama. The ads aren't meant to sway them, silly. It is to enlighten and sway the independent voters.

Hi Mike...I'm not "all worked up" about the TV commercials. They irk me. You're right about the target being independent voters though...yet it's all red meat for the GOP viewers...fan the hate since there's not enough going around. And I didn't "outcry" anything to/about racists...a black Democratic President was pure salt in the GOP's wound of loosing the White House. Thanks for your decent reply.

Only a matter of time before one of you mentioned a teleprompter! How lame.

Didn't you hear? He loaned it to Mitt. He...Loaned...It...To...MITT!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHhhhhhhhhhhh...whimper.

DAHLY your comment is empty of thought. The economy is improving even in the face of rising gas prices. So what is your argument what point are you trying to make beyond just attempting to insult and get a rise from someone. Try explaining your thinking in clear english, I am sure you can find someone to assist you with that.

It was Bill Clinton's Campaign theme, did you already forget? 22 million unemployed, 8.3%. 19% underemployed; lost their job but are working at "something" because they're self reliant, proud people. 6 million plus added to the poverty rolls. Double digit increase in Food Stamp recipients, 46.7 million people. $3.92 gas. I could go on, but why bother. BHO has done a great job! Ignore the FACTS! He couldn't lead a fly to poop........

You should study economics not political dogma. Wages are stagnant and additional money spent on gas is from other expenditures that do contribute to economic growth. There were more jobs in 2000 than now. Unemployment is calculated not measured