GASeous Emissions!
Last edited Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:19 AM - Edit history (1)
2012 Republican presidential candidates, Right Wing political pundits, FOXified AND mainstream media and polling outlets are EMITTING A LOT OF GAS blaming and/or implying that the President is the cause for rising gas prices when THEY ALL KNOW that their claims, blames and implications are filled with a lot of HOT AIR!
2012 presidential candidates’ and Right Wing political pundits’ UNSUBSTANTIATED gaseous emissions go from the RIDICULUS - “Obama’s inaction in the Middle East is helping to drive up the prices at the pump”, and “drill baby drill” to the ABSURD - “$2.50 a gallon gas prices.” Mainstream cable networks highlight programming subtitles such as “how the President is handling gas prices” WHILE holding discussions ADMITTING that “there is very little, if anything, the President can do about it.” FOXifers use the president/gas prices subtitle trick too, BUT they don’t even bother to ADMIT anything, they just MAKE UP STUFF like placing the blame on the Presidents “failed green energy policies”??? A huffingtonpost.com article entitled “Another Concern About the Legitimacy of Some Polling Questions” highlighted the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll that asked the “SUPERFICIAL” question “Do you Agree With How The President is Handling Gas Prices?.” The article’s author states “That’s like asking my Mom how she’s handling enforcing my curfew after I moved out and got my own apartment. While you’re at it, why don’t you also ask how the President is handling the migration of the wildebeest because he has just about as much control over that as he does over GLOBAL oil prices?”
The TRUTH is…
1. A bengarrett.net article states that “gas prices are COMPLEX, involve NUMEROUS factors and CANNOT, solely, be attributed to the actions of the President.”
2. A usatoday.com article discredits the “drill baby drill” FALSEHOOD stating that “The U.S. is PRODUCING more oil than ever; we are using LESS oil; vehicles are MORE fuel-efficient, and we are EXPORTING more oil.”
3. An about.com article states that “oil and gas prices tend to RISE EVERY SPRING, in anticipation of increased demand during the summer driving vacation season.”
4. An article in auto.howstuffworks.com states the “price increases, generally occur, when the WORLD CRUDE –OIL MARKET tightens and lowers inventories.”
5. The Energy Information Administration cited an “increased flow of investment money into commodities market.” - money that used to be invested in real estate or the global stock market is now being invested in oil futures.
6. Goldman Sachs & Co. researchers named “excessive speculation” the culprit for inflating oil prices resulting in gas prices being “$20 HIGHER than supply and demand dictate.”
7. An article in americanprogress.org entitled “Oil Roulette: Rising Oil Prices Harm American Families but Enrich Serial Speculators”, states that “there are serious indications that speculators are driving up oil prices. Hedge funds and other speculators have INCREASED their positions in energy markets by 64 percent since June, 2008 to the HIGHEST LEVEL ON RECORD.”
So, the next time you’re bombarded by the gaseous emissions of 2012 Republican presidential candidates, Right Wing political pundits, FOXified and/or mainstream media and polling outlets regarding the President and rising gas prices - recall AND spread the facts!
