Former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino has noticed the press handling their duties differently when it comes to reporting high gas prices. This isn’t surprising. Back when it was clear the MSM was in the tank for Obama, there was no reason to assume that wouldn’t also include the gas tank:
“Do you see a complete difference in the way we’re looking at it now?” anchor Gretchen Carlson asked Perino.
“Sure, because if you look at that commentary, the gas prices we’re dealing with now have been more gradual. When it’s more — when it happens over a month or two-month long period — that hurts more. Families adjust when it’s gradual. All of a sudden the media is talking about the laws of supply and demand and putting things in context. When President Bush was President, they talked about oil speculators. Who were friends of President Bush? They would put it together like that.”
Perino criticized The New York Times for pushing the narrative asGas Prices Give Republicans Something To Attack, rather than framing it as Obama’s problem. “The GOP is now going to attack him!” Perino exclaimed. “This good man who has done nothing wrong!”
NYT March 2011 (gas $3.50 a gallon): US better prepared for rising gas costs
NYT August 2005 (gas $2.55 a gallon): Economy shows signs of strain from oil prices
Another example can be found in this CNN piece from last year:
It used to be all because we elected a couple of OIL MEN to the Presidency and VP spots.
But now, drilling freezes, pipeline denials, regulatory hurdles too high to afford and more are not cause to blame Obama.
Weird, just weird.
At this point I have to wonder if some in the media are not on the take. That the msm would to such a large degree block for this incompetent begs the question…why? Can it be ideology alone? Well, maybe, but I’m beginning to suspect wads of money in brown paper bags.
You know……the same way JFK won the West Virginia primary in 1960…another fact the msm will never talk about.
The long-term trend of gasoline prices is upward. This has been the case for decades. That trend will be apparent again as global economic activity picks back up. There will never be sufficient supplies to reverse that, because third-world industrialization will guarantee that global demand will stay ahead of global supply. You can throw speculators and geopolitical issues into that mix. Neither will have a positive effect on the picture. Throw oil shale in, too. You’ll get a supply of gasoline, but “cheap” won’t be part of the result.
Point one: Thanks, Curt, for extending the time for editing comments.
I hate to look stupider in print than I do because of fixable things like misspellings and subject/verb disagreement.
Point two: Patrick Richardson of PJMedia saves a few juxtaposed headlines from Matt Drudge that make the high gas price issue slam us in the head.
Here they are:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/files/2012/02/drudge-gas.jpg
Unleaded Premium gasoline.
Potato Chips.
White Sugar.
Bacon.
Ground Chuck Beef
Wheat Flour (this was why I bought a breadmaker, the BLS doesn’t have stats for bread loaves past 2008 for some reason….they skyrocketed!)
More here, click the dinosaurs for the charts and then mess with the start-stop dates on each chart.
Gas prices are driving everything UP.
All the Obama Truth Team Tipsheet Talking Points in the world can’t undo the truth we see as we open our wallets when we shop.
Funny Greg, I don’t recall you saying anything like that when it was Bush in the WH. More deliberate dishonesty on your part.
Those are the simple, hard facts. Unfortunately they’ll be the facts no matter who is in the White House.
What a republican president might accomplish is to set aside any initiatives having to do with alternative energy development and increased conventional fuel efficiency, and to remove obstacles standing in the way of the short-term profits to be made by more rapidly depleting domestic resources to serve a global market.
@Greg:
I hope so, Greg.
———————The green squeeze—————–
——————————–by James Forsyth ———————–
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7659288/the-green-squeeze.thtml
Obama had looked to Europe to set the example for his vision of America’s future.
You can’t freeze time, however.
What Obama based his American dream on turned into a nightmare that smart Europeans are waking up from and extricating themselves out of.
Can Obama keep up on current events?
Or is he too busy golfing and campaigning?
@Nan G: Really? Which ‘regulatory hurdles’ has Obama put in place? Answer: None. He’s opened up more drilling area in the Gulf than Bush ever thought of.
@liberalmann:
Last March Interior Secretary Ken Salazar earlier this month said resuming a pre-Macondo pace of drilling while implementing new safety measures — including well integrity standards, worst-case spill estimates and mandatory spill response and containment plans — will depend on whether the agency receives a requested $133 million bump over current spending levels.
Salazar then promised to issue a “handful” more permits in the near future now that operators have begun demonstrating the ability to prevent and contain possible oil spills.
Obama on Friday rejected criticism that his administration is blocking access to oil and gas resources in the Gulf and said oil production from federal waters in the region was at an “all-time high.” Critics, however, point out that such production is coming from leases and exploration plans approved under the George W. Bush administration.
Obama directed Interior to provide an updated report on nonproducing leases before April 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/03/14/14greenwire-interior-approves-second-deepwater-drilling-pe-24013.html
*Obama rescinded already issued permits for drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska. Shell Oil discovered that after spending $4 billion to develop shallow-water drilling on vast tracts already leased from the federal government in the Beauford and Chukchi Seas north of Alaska, Obama’s EPA has denied it permits to begin exploratory drilling. That leaves 27 billion barrels of oil in the ground.
*The Department of Energy says the Permian Basin has a quarter of the nation’s proven reserves and 20% of the nation’s daily production comes from there. It has a quarter of the nation’s active oil and gas wells and is home to 21% of the rigs actively drilling in the U.S. BUT….Obama has moved to call a lizard there a separate species so he can say it is endangered and stop all drilling.
Again, the increasing oil production in 2009 and 2010 that Obama and his propagandists cite is due to the policies of the Bush Administration.
The impact of the policies adopted by the Obama Administration over the last two years, as part of its War on Oil, will be seen in oil production figures in the years ahead.
Already the Energy Department projects that oil production in the Gulf will be down 20% just this year.
The Department further projects that domestic oil production overall will drop sharply over the next two years.
Obama: “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting eight miles a gallon, you know, you might want to think about a trade-in.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/05/04/obamas-war-on-oil/1
Like I said greg, that wasn’t the tune you were whistling under Bush. You blamed him and and other “oil barons” (paraphrasing). As usual you suddenly get amnesia when it’s a dem in the WH.
CURT
I want to report Nan , she said bad words on her 10,
SHE SAID a pri macando pace, gigawatts, voltaic
DUDE, you don’t accept those bad word, can you change your POST,
it incite us all to say bad words,
thank you
Hard Right
that remind me that song, it goes like that;
OILY OILY OH OH OH, OILY OILY OH, YA YA