Gas Prices Skyrocket 67% Since Obama Took Office



Obama Fiddles while consumer
 fuel costs skyrocket 67%

 According to recent analysis in The Weekly Standard, the price Americans are paying at the pump have skyrocketed 67% since Barack Hussein Obama took office in January 2009. This huge increase compares with a 7% increase in the first 26 months of the George W. Bush Presidency--for those keeping score it is the same time-period comparison.

"Now obviously turmoil in the Middle East has something to do with our current astronomical gas prices, but keep in mind that by this point in the Bush presidency 9/11 had happened and we were on the verge of invading Iraq. So while the president can't be entirely responsible for global commodity prices, it's still worth asking what Obama's doing to make things worse."

For more information on the analysis visit The Weekly Standard.

Where is the outrage from the media about the huge increase under Obama? The same media were quick to point to the increase in fuel prices under President Bush as a huge increase, blaming the Bush Administration for the comparatively small increases against the 67% under Obama.

The outrage here is there has been a failure since the Carter Administration to chart a true course to energy security and break the grip of OPEC over not only the American consumer at the pump, but over American mlitary and foreign policy as well. It is the proverbial 'Emperor Nero' Obama fiddling while American economy and the consumer suffocates under rising fuel prices.

Political leaders need to act now to empower the private sector to lead America to energy security.