http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

Being in Canada, our gas prices are even higher than in the States, and we have a conservative prime minister. Have a look at this chart and see if you can tell if the U.S. and Canadian trends appear to be the same. Bottom line is that the leaders of our countries have absolutely nothing to do with gas prices.

The whole point that gas prices are not under the control of the POTUS is totally lost on most both when Bush had $4 gas and now that Obama has close to the same. Gas prices dropped to under $1.80/gal between Jul08 and Jan09 due to global recession and reduction in global demand. Gas and oil are commodities traded on global markets US gas prices track pretty much identical to other world markets.

Heather’s two segments were broadcast live and there was a serious hitch that I must admit she handled with great professionalism.

About 1.20 minutes in the second clip, Heather asks a lady waiting for gas: “would you be willing to vote for another administration if they kept gas prices down?” The lady gave a very articulate pro-Obama answer that Heather could not cut off (nor did she try to her credit).

Heather thanked the lady politely and morphed smoothly to telling viewers that an earlier driver had said exactly the opposite (see 1.40 minutes into the first clip). No fuss, no bother, we’ll never see that lady again but she sure gets my vote for best in show for today.

Well, I’m not really sure what “rising gas prices” are being spoken of since the gas prices in my area (Montgomery, AL) are currently running about 25 cents LESS than they were just 2 weeks ago.

I’d put (regular unleaded) gas in my car on Tuesday, 10/9, and the price was $3.599 per gallon. When I filled up at the same station on Sunday night, 10/21, the price per gallon was $3.399 per gallon. As I passed by the same gas station yesterday, the price per gallon was $3.329 per gallon. Even the little gas station near my apartment was over $3.60 a gallon back around the 9th and was under $3.40 a gallon yesterday (I don’t use this station because it sits on a bad corner, trafficwise). Even a gas station near my workplace is running about 20 cents a gallon less than it was just 2 weeks ago (and it averaged about 5 cents more than any other gas station on my usual driving pattern).

Now, I do remember a news story about a week and a half ago about how gas prices in Cali were set to go over $6 a gallon because of a refinery shortage or something but I’d think that would be something wholeheartedly supported by the FoxyFiends since it follows that old capitalism principle of “supply & demand” but doesn’t quite seem to cross the line into violating any laws against “price gouging” (here in Alabama—a bastion of conservative “fuck the consumer” ideology—we have laws that prohibit anything that looks like price gouging or price fixing during declared emergencies*; even when it looks like a group of businesses are pricing their products the same, despite the businesses may be miles apart and whose clientele’s incomes are completely dissimilar, our hard-right leaders will step in when constituents complain about possible price-fixing—the owners or operators of those businesses will be “asked” to explain why their prices seem to be so closely aligned, especially when there’s been some sort of natural disaster involved).

*Hotels, for instance, can’t suddenly increase their rates because there’s an influx of new “customers” evacuating areas under hurricane warnings and their available spaces are dwindling, and gas stations can’t jack up prices as their supply starts running low from hundreds of evacuees stopping in and filling up, and grocery stores can’t jack up prices as their “staple” items begin dwindling)

Don D, I agree, but I wish Obama and the Democrats would challenge the BS on gas prices. During the debate, Romney said gas in NY was $1.86 a gallon when Obama took office. I lived in Connecticut at that time, and gas was never even below $2 a gallon ever. And NY prices are higher than CT. I have no idea where Romney got that number. Someone in NY, tell us when the last time you paid under $2 for gasoline? For me, the lowest I recall was late 2006 when it was $2.02 traveling through Kentucky.

Oh the good ole days…why I remember back in the 2000s when gas prices were higher than they’d ever been in history, and the FoxGOPTV pukes said over and over and over and over that the president, in fact, NO PRESIDENT, had any control of gas prices. Look at the pukes now, blaming President Obama for something even they said NO PRESIDENT had control over.

neocons are hypocrites.

@Fan22 — you’re making the assumption that people who follow Fox give a shit about facts.

Fox’s target audience doesn’t drive anymore due to lack of eyesight, hearing, and depth perception, but they are outraged nonetheless.

What nobody mentions, including Obama, is gas prices were over $4 a gallon throughout much of 2008 and didn’t plunge until fall 2008 when the economy totally collapsed. Why don’t the Democrats offer the average price of gas during the Bush years? It would likely be similar to what it is today.