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Latest gas price spike spawns bad ideas

USA Today -- If political pandering and half-baked ideas could fill Americans' gas tanks, the latest price surge at the filling station would be no problem. As typically happens when gas spikes, politicians are providing an oversupply of blame-shifting and cluelessness. If there's a good energy strategy in all the criticism, it's well hidden.

OPPOSING VIEW: It's time to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

No sooner did gas prices begin to rise than the Republican presidential candidates blamed President Obama, insisting it was his fault that prices climbed from $1.85 a gallon the day before he was inaugurated to more than $3.70 a gallon now. That makes a good sound bite, but believing it requires forgetting that when Obama took office, the ravaged economy was depressing prices for commodities,

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Submitted Apr 14, 2012 By: mastermariner

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URKiddinMee Champion Author South Carolina Posts:1,214 Points:242,910 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Apr 16, 2012 7:32:59 AM Ignore URKiddinMee Report Abuse Yet another leftist Obozo apologist article. How many years are left for Obozo and the media to blame Bush for everything? And if we want to consider the "Bush Economy" we should ALSO consider the unemployment rate at less than HALF what we have now that all this "Hope & Change" has been implemented! Just sayin'
remay Champion Author Houston Posts:6,963 Points:2,116,640 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Apr 16, 2012 6:45:34 AM Ignore remay Report Abuse So maybe it TAKES "bad" ideas. Has anyone got GOOD ideas (that has WORKED)?
Rehorsehay All-Star Author California Posts:871 Points:45,925 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 9:54:21 AM Ignore Rehorsehay Report Abuse Its all about profits. Too bad you can not take it with you when you die!
johntxx Champion Author Texas Posts:2,778 Points:615,345 Joined:Aug 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 9:38:23 AM Ignore johntxx Report Abuse Editorial: Latest gas price spike spawns bad ideas
beetle9711 Veteran Author Pittsburgh Posts:321 Points:88,100 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 7:25:38 AM Ignore beetle9711 Report Abuse tunnel vision is the cause
gandalfthegrey1 Champion Author Houston Posts:1,184 Points:384,785 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 6:10:09 AM Ignore gandalfthegrey1 Report Abuse obummer cannot control the price of crude, but his incessant, obsessive tunnel vision he calls energy policy is a major factor in this whole mess. Remove him and a lot of things will change - in the right way. Come November we need to vote that this international embarrassment be retired to Samoa.
blupupher Champion Author Houston Posts:3,545 Points:747,070 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 5:49:15 AM Ignore blupupher Report Abuse bad ideas on both sides.
bicycle1966 All-Star Author Akron Posts:605 Points:401,840 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 5:28:57 AM Ignore bicycle1966 Report Abuse they're right -- lots of bad ideas
mossimo36 Champion Author St. Louis Posts:2,660 Points:495,875 Joined:Sep 2011	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 2:30:47 AM Ignore mossimo36 Report Abuse Don't tap the SPR!
Pozole Champion Author Portland Posts:9,591 Points:1,593,545 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 1:05:16 AM Ignore Pozole Report Abuse ...the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is for emergencies...just because we're going through a crappy bad spell doesn't make it an emergency...
WalRus49 Champion Author Boston Posts:4,070 Points:867,890 Joined:Nov 2010	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 12:31:46 AM Ignore WalRus49 Report Abuse More organized mayhem and pillage..............
Jeff4U Champion Author Atlanta Posts:8,749 Points:1,851,395 Joined:Nov 2004	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 11:26:16 PM Ignore Jeff4U Report Abuse They need to develop engines that run on milk or maybe Obama Koolaid, at a much lower price per gallon.
dave27johnson Champion Author Chicago Posts:1,787 Points:407,575 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 10:52:28 PM Ignore dave27johnson Report Abuse A balanced editorial.
lesndave Champion Author Texas Posts:3,032 Points:700,180 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 9:09:09 PM Ignore lesndave Report Abuse Always the blame game!!
PDQBlues Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,069 Points:1,447,350 Joined:Jan 2009	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 8:00:50 PM Ignore PDQBlues Report Abuse When it comes to politics, for every complex problem, there's a simple solution that is totally wrong and will make things worse. You can depend that your elected officials will go down that rabbit hole.
schatzila Champion Author Los Angeles Posts:4,944 Points:1,015,645 Joined:Jun 2010	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:41:19 PM Ignore schatzila Report Abuse Hasn't spiked here.
FunMyster All-Star Author Indiana Posts:907 Points:73,215 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:14:19 PM Ignore FunMyster Report Abuse ok
eomc17 Champion Author Tucson Posts:1,822 Points:134,145 Joined:Mar 2007	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:12:17 PM Ignore eomc17 Report Abuse It's time for the CFTC to do it's job to follow a 15 month old law requiring them to enact legislation to curb speculation and set position limits any one investor may possess. CFTC chief Gensler told us that he's not interested in changing the status quo and hypocrite Obama won't force the issue, is making a mockery of our laws. Voters, PLEASE don't vote for this power hungry socialist in November. I am a lifetime democrat and Obama is NOT a true democrat. Romney is not a prophet but I don't think he will hurt our economy or make a mockery of our constitution and justice system like Obama already has. Sorry Obama, I don't believe your "change" is in my country's best interest.
aquarinut Champion Author British Columbia Posts:1,628 Points:436,105 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:09:01 PM Ignore aquarinut Report Abuse GWB had 9/11, hunt for Bin Laden, WMD and Iraq to influence the cost of energy. BO had Bin Laden search ended and the withdrawal from Iraq to help lower US energy consumption. So what did he do with that advantage... squash US energy development and waste billions on ineffective green energy. Just the withdrawal from Iraq has probably dropped military energy consumption by half. So just what is obama doing to help the US wean off fossil fuels???? OH yeah.... he's following his mandate to make gasoline and other energies "rise" up to european standards!
graceman Champion Author Baltimore Posts:4,968 Points:1,158,725 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 6:23:42 PM Ignore graceman Report Abuse it's always easy to point fingers.
esq262 Champion Author Asheville Posts:2,892 Points:647,290 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 6:12:08 PM Ignore esq262 Report Abuse Most of Washington's ideas are half-baked.
Debrastorch Veteran Author Florida Posts:397 Points:94,145 Joined:Mar 2012	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 5:38:28 PM Ignore Debrastorch Report Abuse Well, why doesn't everyone blame Obama for the national debt, or are they doing that already. It is easy to point the finger at him, but the republicans who are anything but conservative, in my opinion, should take a good look at themselves and what havoc congress has wreaked.