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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm so pissed off at Obama I could spit!!
The last few months gasoline in my area was close to $4/gallon, now it's down to 3.23/gallon. Whatever Obama is doing now to gas prices is hurting the profits of the oil industry!
OBAMA HATES BUSINESS!!!
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)Yay!
AAO
(3,300 posts)Don't try to tell me Obama has no control over oil prices. When they go up, he get blamed by all the selfish gas guzzling eaters. So when they go down, he must be rigging the system against BIG BUSINESS!!
(a right-winger explained this all to me in an email)
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)for 2.29 I buy straight regular, no ethanol.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)Yes, we must ensure the oil companies continue to make obscene profits. No need to worry, though, even though prices at the pump are lower, the American taxpayers are still subsidizing the oil industry every year.
AAO
(3,300 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)Now you can rest easy knowing that Mrs. Shell will still be able to redecorate the Malibu house that they use two weeks a year!
AAO
(3,300 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Thanks, Obama.
I mentioned it to my RW coworker and he says gas should be 70 cents per gallon since that what it was in the early 70's.
AAO
(3,300 posts)bhikkhu
(10,711 posts)Obama snaps his fingers and the price goes down, but once he's voted back in they'll go straight through the roof! People are such fools!
AAO
(3,300 posts)You never know when people are dense enough to require multiple smileys.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)I said I "could spit". And I'm almost ALWAYS outside! I'm currently ( for the last 2 years) unemployed and homeless - PLEASE support your local library!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)The oil companies must be going bankrupted
AAO
(3,300 posts)Or bastardress, if you are female. ((Why can't we just settle on genderless names for people? Gender, after all, is a personal construct which doesn't necessarily reflect the way your were born.))
I'd just go with bast!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)they'll continue gouging us...
zappaman
(20,606 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)I noticed this months ago and made an OP. Oh, the horror of it all, the prices have remained DOWN! And yes, it was a horrible OP and poll, too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1102&pid=13475
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)On both sides. And rightly so.
Sorry, but gas per gallon skyrocketed after Katrina and hasn't come down much since. Yet I'm supposed to rah-rah for $3.23 gas where you live while it's $3.45 where I live which is still around the same price after Katrina when it skyrocketed And while the oil companies are pulling in the highest business profits in the billions per year. And when they not only pay no taxes but get subsidies from the government. Nope, not joining your pom-pom waving especially when the only reason no one is screaming about gas prices now is because after all these years since Katrina voices are hoarse and we've gotten used to paying astronomical gas prices for no damn reason.
Meanwhile, the Saudis are hugely pissed off at us for not doing their bidding bombing Syria off the map, and guess where we get most of our gas.