Missing that $1,000?

Vacant restaurant, Finger Lakes

Since Obama's inauguration, gasoline prices have more than doubled.  A conservative estimate is that Finger Lakes families are paying $1,000 per year more for gas than they were two years ago.  That doesn't include heating fuel or the price of transportation built into every product and service we buy.  Most of you haven't had a $1,000 raise lately, so you're being forced to give something up.  Restaurant meals, perhaps?

"Where is the president?" (John F.) Kerry asked in Portland, where gasoline is selling for as much as $2.31 a gallon. "We need a president who is fighting for the American worker, the American family at the fuel pump."

On Capitol Hill, a group of Democratic senators introduced a resolution calling for the release of 1 million of barrels of oil a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for up to 60 days, arguing that would force down gas prices. Said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: "The administration insists on throwing fuel in the fire."

Those quotes are from an AP report written in May, 2004.   We repost them once again, as an introduction to PowerLine's trip down memory lane:

Gasoline prices rose during 2008, mostly in response to world-wide demand driven by the growing economies of the time. In June 2008, average prices at the pump hit $4 per gallon for the first time. Candidate Obama wasted no time blaming gas prices on President Bush:

The Presidential campaign's focus turned sharply to the economy Monday, an inopportune time for Republican John McCain as Americans cope with record-high gasoline prices and a spike in job losses.

That "spike" took the unemployment rate to 5.5 percent, a level not even dreamed of during the Age of Obama. But Obama attacked the Bush administration on the issue of gas prices:

Obama took part of his speech from headlines across the nation, noting that the average price of gas just hit $4 a gallon for the first time. ....

And yet, candidate Obama promised to raise energy prices and he's doing just what he said he would.  Please insist that your friends and neighbors understand exactly what's happening.  Don't let them blame Sunoco, Byrne Dairy, or Griffith Energy.

Update:  Trump blames Obama for high gas prices.