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To: thackney
So you consider $3 a low gasoline price?

Other Freeper stated that for most of the Bush administration gas prices were low. You posted a chart that showed gas prices over the course of the Bush administration.

From 2001 through all of 2003 and most of 2004, gas prices were below $2.00 (except for two very brief spikes in 2004). From 2005 gas prices were below $3.00 except for a brief spike that barely topped $3.00 and then dropped sharply back down well below $2.50, and in 2006 prices trended up to and stayed right at $3.00 for a few months in the late spring and summer before trending back down to well below $2.50 at the end of 2006. At the beginning of 2007 -- when the Pelosi/Reid Congress took control -- gas prices were a about $2.25. During the last two years of the Bush Administration, when the Pelosi/Reid Congress blocked Bush's agenda and forced through stagflationary federal minimum wage legislation as its only "accomplishment", gas prices trended steadily upward peaking above $4.00 in mid 2008. Prices dropped sharply in the second half of 2008 as Bush relaxed off-shore drilling moratoriums through executive order and were once again below $2.00 when Zero took office in January 2009.

So what exactly is the basis for your challenge of "So you consider $3 a low gasoline price?" The data you posted shows that to be an invalid challenge to the other FReeper's post.

36 posted on 10/19/2012 9:05:23 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
So what exactly is the basis for your challenge of "So you consider $3 a low gasoline price?"

The original poster referenced "the low gas prices for most of Bush's two terms".

I do not believe most people consider the gas price for most of Bush's two terms to be a low price.

I think when we make those type of statements, overstating the past to criticize the present, we diminish our argument.

There are plenty of actions related to energy and gasoline in specific to criticize Obama, both in his direct actions and those he chose for his administration. I suggest we would best be served by by focusing on those.

39 posted on 10/19/2012 10:09:50 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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