>Just before the 2008 election, gas prices here were the highest I can remember them being. Yes, they dropped after that, but even this latest rise hasn't gone back to those prices.
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>That's actually not correct. Gas prices right now are about the same as they were in 2008. In several states they're over $4.00 per gallon. One difference - in 2008, oil was $140 a barrel...it's nothing close to that right now.
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>And before anyone jumps in about speculators and greedy oil companies, remember that the govt makes roughly fifty cents per gallon in taxes.
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>And for this you can thank the thugs of our current adminstration, like the Sec of Energy who wants to see gas go to 8-10 dollars per gallon. (Google "Steven Chu" and "gas prices")
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>And for that matter, listen to Obama in 2008 when he sympathized with people facing high gas prices ....and listen to the adminstration now singing a very different tune. It is another example of the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the Democratic party, trying to bamboolze the American public into thinking that Bush high gas prices were "bad", but Obama high gas prices are very different.
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>Want to watch a bizarre video? http://redstatevirginia.com/2011/05/gas-prices-then-and-now-a-tale-of-2-idiots/

Thats a very selective bit of video. First, they push the idea that the media is not covering the economic pain caused by high gas prices and instead paint the media as solely reporting high prices as having positive benefits. Which is nonsense. The media does report on gas price pain and they point to high gas prices as one reason why the economy is still in the toilet, and that it may cost BHO his reelection.

I agree with BHO that someone driving a vehicle that gets 8 MPGs is going to be an issue for that driver with high gas prices.

The 2006 footage of Dem politicos lamenting that time's historically high cost of gas coincided with the horrific amounts of unending carnage from the Iraqi civil war. And many people, rightly or wrongly, associated high gas prices in part on the US entry into Iraq... which the Bush admin hyped as a necessity with mushroom cloud marketing. And politicians take advantage of that. Like the GOP does now with BHO when the arab spring was a player in driving up oil prices.