Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don't Blame Obama

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Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don't Blame Obama

Networks have refused to connect administration to steadily rising gas prices.
By Julia A. Seymour

The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $3.86 on April 25, more than $1-a-gallon higher than a year earlier and less than 25 cents away from the record high price of gasoline set in July 2008.

In fact, per gallon prices are more than $2 higher than when Obama took office Jan. 20, 2009. Yet the president has been nearly exempt from criticism on the issue of rising prices, despite a six-month drilling moratorium and more regulatory hurdles for industry.

The Business & Media Institute found that out of the 280 oil price stories the network evening shows have aired since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, only 1 percent (3 stories) mentioned Obama's drilling ban or other anti-oil actions in connection with gasoline prices.

Instead of asking whether Obama's anti-oil policies could be increasing the cost of gas, the networks blamed other factors such as Mideast turmoil or the "money game" played by speculators. Certainly, the turmoil in Libya, Egypt and surrounding nations has increased worries about oil production and can influence the price. But the networks also should have looked for explanations much closer to home, like Obama's many regulatory actions taken against the oil industry.


http://www.mrc.org/bmi/articles/201...her_than_Year_Ago_Media_Dont_Blame_Obama.html

:rolleyes:
 
not sure how much

Yet you post an article from a partisan group that makes it pretty clear as to how much of an effect they believe President Obama's oil policies are having on prices at the pump.

Why did you post the article if you don't agree with it?
 
Yet you post an article from a partisan group that makes it pretty clear as to how much of an effect they believe President Obama's oil policies are having on prices at the pump.

Why did you post the article if you don't agree with it?

did they say exactly how much? :pke:
 
We can discuss that later, but first, why did you ignore my question?

Why did you cut-n-paste the article if you don't agree with it?

no, you need to discuss it right now as it goes to the heart of your ignorant question. if they did not say how much...then what did i disagree with by saying i don't know how much?
 
Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don't Blame Obama

Networks have refused to connect administration to steadily rising gas prices.
By Julia A. Seymour

The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $3.86 on April 25, more than $1-a-gallon higher than a year earlier and less than 25 cents away from the record high price of gasoline set in July 2008.

In fact, per gallon prices are more than $2 higher than when Obama took office Jan. 20, 2009. Yet the president has been nearly exempt from criticism on the issue of rising prices, despite a six-month drilling moratorium and more regulatory hurdles for industry.

The Business & Media Institute found that out of the 280 oil price stories the network evening shows have aired since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, only 1 percent (3 stories) mentioned Obama's drilling ban or other anti-oil actions in connection with gasoline prices.

Instead of asking whether Obama's anti-oil policies could be increasing the cost of gas, the networks blamed other factors such as Mideast turmoil or the "money game" played by speculators. Certainly, the turmoil in Libya, Egypt and surrounding nations has increased worries about oil production and can influence the price. But the networks also should have looked for explanations much closer to home, like Obama's many regulatory actions taken against the oil industry.


http://www.mrc.org/bmi/articles/201...her_than_Year_Ago_Media_Dont_Blame_Obama.html

:rolleyes:

Well, according to people with a lot more smarts than Brent Bozell think he's wrong...

"The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. offshore oil production is expected to be 13 percent lower this year, in part due to the Gulf drilling moratorium. But just 32 percent of American oil comes from offshore sources, and total U.S. production of crude oil and liquid fuels in 2011 is expected to stay near 2010 levels, which were higher than any other year in the past decade. According to the Financial Times, private forecasters think total U.S. production will actually rise this year due to increases in onshore output.

More to the point, energy experts say that given the scale of the world oil market, any decrease in U.S. oil production resulting from the deep-water moratorium cannot be blamed for the high oil and gasoline prices that we're seeing"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104240005
 
no, you need to discuss it right now as it goes to the heart of your ignorant question. if they did not say how much...then what did i disagree with by saying i don't know how much?

Wow...what a surprise!

How did I know Yurt would decline to answer the very simple question put to him first??

That's the way to dodge the question, you ridiculous partisan hack!

Come on, tell everyone why you posted an article if you don't agree with it.
 
The ‘ban’ was lifted months ago.

“On May 30, 2010 a 6 month moratorium on all deepwater offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf was declared by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. The limitation was in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which occurred in the Gulf of Mexico…The moratorium was to impact 33 deepwater drilling sites, less than 1% of the 3,600 oil and natural gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico...”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_deepwater_drilling_moratorium

WHOOPSIE!

Just one more little "FACT" that Brent Bozell and his little trained minions at the MRC forgot to include in their in-depth piece of journalism.
 
Well, according to people with a lot more smarts than Brent Bozell think he's wrong...

"The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. offshore oil production is expected to be 13 percent lower this year, in part due to the Gulf drilling moratorium. But just 32 percent of American oil comes from offshore sources, and total U.S. production of crude oil and liquid fuels in 2011 is expected to stay near 2010 levels, which were higher than any other year in the past decade. According to the Financial Times, private forecasters think total U.S. production will actually rise this year due to increases in onshore output.

More to the point, energy experts say that given the scale of the world oil market, any decrease in U.S. oil production resulting from the deep-water moratorium cannot be blamed for the high oil and gasoline prices that we're seeing"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104240005

appeal to authority....logical fallacy....how is it gwb was blamed (i'm sure you blamed him) for high gas prices, but here you are desperately trying to defend obama....

your cite is informing...nonetheless...still an opinion like my cite...the real question is -- why isn't the media exploring this more as was done under gwb? its comical how you miss that huge point and instead focus on doggedly defending a fellow lib
 
Wow...what a surprise!

How did I know Yurt would decline to answer the very simple question put to him first??

That's the way to dodge the question, you ridiculous partisan hack!

Come on, tell everyone why you posted an article if you don't agree with it.

i'm not dodging anything...what did i disagree with??? you claimed my statement "i don't know how much" makes me disagree with the article. how is that possible given he did not say how much? i agree with the article, yet you're too much of a pussy to explain how you arrived at your ignorant question.

i answered your question more fully...now answer mine.
 
i'm not dodging anything...what did i disagree with??? you claimed my statement "i don't know how much" makes me disagree with the article. how is that possible given he did not say how much? i agree with the article, yet you're too much of a pussy to explain how you arrived at your ignorant question.

i answered your question more fully...now answer mine.

i wonder if zappa will answer my question....
 
While it's plausible to assume that many journalists are more favorable toward Obama than they were toward Bush, is it possible that blaming the president for gas prices is simply inaccurate?

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it is possible to be inaccurate....i'm willing to bet you never defended bush like you're defending obama....why is that?
 
You simply have no idea whether I defended Bush or not, and I suspect that you wouldn't take my word for it if I said I had, so it's fruitless to enter into a discussion with you.

It's your thread; rather than hijack it, let's stick to the issue.

I agreed with your basic premise that the media isn't ganging up on Obama over gas prices.

My question to you is, why should they?

i nailed you on bush...that is a fact i believe is 100% accurate.

why shouldn't they? why the disparity between the media's coverage of the issue under bush as compared to obama? it was claimed that bush's oil ties were partly responsible...that he was a bad president because he couldn't keep prices under control......now with obama...we have nothing like that, despite obama campaigning about HIGH gas prices....he has stated he wants high gas prices and that the high prices could be GOOD for americans.....but the media isn't talking about that.....is it possible obama is helping in some way to bring about high gas prices?

http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=18669
 
i nailed you on bush...that is a fact i believe is 100% accurate.

why shouldn't they? why the disparity between the media's coverage of the issue under bush as compared to obama? it was claimed that bush's oil ties were partly responsible...that he was a bad president because he couldn't keep prices under control......now with obama...we have nothing like that, despite obama campaigning about HIGH gas prices....he has stated he wants high gas prices and that the high prices could be GOOD for americans.....but the media isn't talking about that.....is it possible obama is helping in some way to bring about high gas prices?

http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=18669


Awww, it's so saddening that the media was sooooooooo mean to Bush and they're soooooooo not mean to Obama. I feel for you, Crawfish.
 
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