SOMETHING OBAMA INHERITED FROM BUSH, BUT, STRANGELY, NEVER REALLY TALKS ABOUT…

We continue to hear Barry whine incessantly about how it was that he inherited such a mess that after three years he been unable to fix it. Actually the only thing he has succeeded at has been to make things so very much worse. But the one thing that we seldom, if ever, hear about, and is something that he also inherited from Bush, was the then price of a gallon of gas. And something else we rarely hear about from either Barry or his many minions in the state-controlled media, is the fact that the average price for one gallon of unleaded gasoline has increased nearly every month since Barry “Almighty” was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. At that time, when George W. Bush was leaving office, the price of gas was $1.78 per gallon. Today, three years and one month later, the average price is $3.64.



In addition, according to the average price data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices (in nominal dollars: not adjusted for inflation) peaked during George W. Bush’s second term at $4.09 per gallon and that came in July 2008. Prices then fell to $2.15 in November, when there was an election, and fell even further in December 2008 to $1.68 per gallon. When Bush entered office in January 2001, the price of gas was $1.47 per gallon. It then peaked during Bush’s first term at $2.02, and that came in October 2004. Counter that with the fact that under Barry “Almighty”, prices have not fallen below $2.05 per gallon since April 2009, and the highest average price, so far, was $3.93 in May 2011. And I find strange that we hear none of the alarmist rhetoric we heard when Bush was in office.


Last week, in a report from the Communist Broadcasting System, better known as CBS News, it was stated that a shell station in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., was charging $5.99 per gallon for premium, and another station in Orlando, Fla., was charging $5.79 per gallon for regular unleaded. The average price in Florida is $3.67 for unleaded. The AAA Web site lists the average regular fuel prices for each of the 50 states, showing California with the highest average at $4.20. The U.S. city average for the price of one gallon of unleaded gasoline, as documented by the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics -- from when our “Dear Beloved Leader” was elected in November 2008 to today -- is presented below. It should take you very long to identify a disturbing, and very troubling, trend. A trend that has its source, Barack Hussein Obama.


2008
November $2.15 Barry “Almighty” defeats John McCain in presidential race
December $1.68 Last full month for President George W. Bush
2009
January $1.78 at the time of Barry “Almighty’s” coronation (Jan. 20)
February $1.92
March $1.94
April $2.05
May $2.26
June $2.63
July $2.54
August $2.62
September $2.57
October $2.56
November $2.66
December $2.62
2010
January $2.73
February $2.65
March $2.78
April $2.85
May $2.86
June $2.73
July $2.73
August $2.74
September $2.70
October $2.79
November $2.85
December $2.98
2011
January $3.09
February $3.16
March $3.54
April $3.81
May $3.93
June $3.70
July $3.65
August $3.63
September $3.61
October $3.46
November $3.42
December $3.27
2012
January $3.381
February $3.64*


* February 2012 number is from AAA’s National Average Prices.