You are asking people to think critically, research history and world events, challenge their assumptions and overcome their personal biases as well as their sense of entitlement towards cheap gasoline.
Its a lot easier to just draw a cartoon that blames it all on Obama.
Yep and going back using that prescription, if you take the meme above of the gas prices at the end of Bush's Presidency, during the latter year of Clinton, I was paying under a $1 per gallon for gas, often in the upper $.80's. From there to the end of Bush, gas prices doubled using the above meme as evidence. Take the prices in the meme again, compared them to today, I filled up last night paying $3.59 per gallon for example and yet again those prices have doubled.
I see a tend that regardless of who is President or who controls Congress, seems to hold sway. From my perspective, "IF" one must hold a single person responsible, the more fitting person would be the Federal Reserve Chairman. Even then, 3 different people have held the position so we are back to policy and economics itself rather than the actions of a single person or entity. When it comes to the price of gas just as any commodity, there is a multiplicity of causes and effects when it comes to price.
TOS was correct in pointing out for example the effect of state taxes, in his case California, as to why Moreluck is paying so much for gas. She made a choice to live in a certain locale and sometimes those choices have a price. Her solution through collective action would be to force the rest of us to subsidize her continuing in her folly.
I'm no fan of Obama or Bush but I don't buy the PR spin they as President are the most powerful men on the planet. They are little more than sock puppets for the institutions that are behind them, many of them with competing or contradictory interests. Another reason any politician will say one thing during the campaign and yet rarely if ever follow through once in office.
Our President is little more than a mysterious image encased by fire and smoke to which we are to be both frightened and enraptured never daring to look behind the curtain to see the truth. I only wish it was so simple as to blame or credit them as then the solution would be simple.
