Do you think it is any coincidence that gas prices have reached an all time high when a Bush was in office?

Question

Both damn times....no, nothing fishy there...........

Answer 1

Big oil doesn't want to open any new refineries. They know the more refineries there are, the more supply and there for less profit. They have been actively shutting down refineries for years. A memo between the oil companies proves this. And remember when Bush said they could build refineries on old army bases and he's suspend all environmental rules? There were no takers, that there is proof they want a tight rein on the supply. Also any oil from ANWR would go on the world market and we'll probably not see a drop of it. Which would be a boon for big Oil as there is a law on the books that says if the price of oil goes above $55 dollars a barrel, they don't have to pay any royalties. So if drilling is allowed in ANWR or offshore, Big Oil reaps the profits and we get nothing!
After the gas lines Carter started a major energy policy. He had incentives for solar energy and other renewable energy sources. He even put up solar panels on the White House! He said we would be off our dependence on foriegn oil by 2000.

Answer 2

World oil production has peaked. That means that while demand will continue to go up, supply will be going down from now on. That means that prices will just keep on rising, no matter who the President is.

George W. Bush has been one of the worst presidents the United States ever had. Bill Clinton was disgusting, but his sins (however gross they were) were mostly personal ones. Bush, on the other hand, is a dangerous monster, an immature brat with a nuclear fist.

But the rising price of fuel and petrol-based goods isn't Bush's fault. It won't matter who lives in the White House in the future: energy costs are just going to keep going up, and up, and up... until nobody except the government can afford to buy it any more.

You just watch. If you live another twenty or thirty years, you'll see the government declaring gasoline to be a strategic resource and limit all supplies unto itself, for use by the military, (self-)"important" officials, well-positioned bureaucrats, certain Jews, and favored rich people. That's why there's already an executive order on the books permitting the government to seize all the fuel (and food) that you may have.

The government can use the same (not yet activated) laws to seize YOU and YOUR FAMILY too! Draft you on an instant's notice for involuntary servitude in the civil service, naturally at some dirty grunt level, and probably without any pay worth mentioning. According to the law, they won't even have to keep your family's members together, but can split them up as they please. (Hostages?)

These laws were actually used in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

FEMA has built an unknown, but large, number of prisons around the United States that are presently just sitting empty. They are meant to hold dissidents and "troublemakers," during times of crisis, after the US government officially declares them to be "enemy combatants." That's a means of suspending a citizen's constitutional rights and holding him in prison without trial and without access to a lawyer.

And what will trigger this into happening is the decline of fossil fuels and the ensuing scramble of various governments and other groups to dominate the post-oil world.

Answer 3

Why don't you get a life and get off the bush bashing stuff. The cost of gas is because the congress has sat on its butt for so long and done nothing to change our automobiles to other energy sources. For too long Americans have enjoyed cheap gas and became addicted to using far more than needed. If the congress was smart they could pas a law limiting gas thru a rationing system that would give families cheap gas and then higher priced gas once they used up the allotment of cheap gas. The rich do not mid the3 cost of gas and as usual it is the little guy that gets the abuse. Write your congressman and senator to take action and get gas rationing back so the demand will drop and the Arabs will have to wise up.

Answer 4

High gas prices are and were the result of both administrations standing up to a dangerous regime that was backing international terrorism. These actions have caused stability in a part of the world where oil is produced, thus driving up the worldwide price of oil. Would it have been worth higher gas prices if the last administration would have destabilized the middle east to go after Al Qaeda and its supporters and thus prevented the terrorist attacks on American soil on September 11, 2001? The answer is obvious. May God bless and keep you.

Answer 5

Gas prices still haven't gotten more expensive, corrected for inflation, then they were during the oil crises in the 70s.

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deliberate planning by big oil??? They've been wanting to build refineries to MAKE MORE GAS, but the EPA and local governments won't let them build! Refineries are operating at near full capacity! A few of them go down for repairs, and prices spike.

time to start mining that shale oil :-)

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Oil refineries in other countries are getting thier oil for the SAME PRICE as us! Other governments put heavier taxes on gasoline than the US does to help fund public institutions (transportation, etc).

Answer 6

Coincidence? No. Both Bush presidents are definitely on the side of big business (or should I say that both Bush presidents have been bought out by big business) so if the gas companies raise prices, the Bush administrations will not challenge them at all. After all, both of them are honest, they stay bought.

Answer 7

You're crazy. He's trying to dig for oil in Alaska. Sure war in the middle east doesn't help, but I think he'd be happier with a quicker economy due to lower gas prices.

Actually, I watched a PBS special on this, a very large amount of the added cost is because the common invester is getting into commodities and futures. They buy many barrels of oil in speculation and that drives prices up. Along with war, future demand worries, and so forth.

Answer 8

Do you remember the 1970's? There was a Democrat called Jimmy Carter in the white house at the time.
We had an actual energy crisis and an economic depression. Gas prices where high, there were lines just to get gas.
I think you need to read history a bit more.
"The economy suffered double-digit inflation, coupled with very high interest rates, oil shortages, high unemployment, and slow economic growth."

Answer 9

Know whats weird how Bush doesn't control what the gas prices are. So yeah there really is nothing fishy there.

Answer 10

Even though oil prices per barrel are at an all time high, american oil companies reported bigger proffits than ever beore as well, which in laymans terms means they not only passed every additional cost per barrel onto the public, but also tacked a significant increase for themselves on as well. Its not surprising tht the bush family is also profiting from this in a multitude of ways.