what was the price of gas under Clinton that the RW got their

[greenbriar]

panties in a wad over???

I would gladly go back to that price

[Psephos]

1. The price should have been higher under Clinton, imo

80 cent/gallon gas is what started the SUV craze.

Peace.

[cprise]

10. Agreed.

Much higher... like over $4/gal with taxes.

Support for the Kyoto treaty should also NOT have been dropped.

Of course, Clinton had little political room to manouvre because he gave the corporate media carte blanche... and they used it to intensify RW attacks enough to paralyze him. I think he was expecting them not to behave greedily.

[papau]

2. The Bush speech complained about $28 per barrel oil - which is now $65

Gas as I recall wandered between 89 cents and 1.29. Damn good thing peace and prosperity does not bring votes when the media is out to screw Dems.

Gas is now over 3.09 westcoast, 2.79 east coast.

[randr]

3. Every time the price of oil has taken a sharp increase

American presidents have threatened to open the strategic oil reserves to balance the market.
The idiot in the WH and his pals are making too much money this time to consider what may be best for the country.

[Pepperbelly]

7. not only will this asshole NOT release any reserve, he continues ...

to fill it. He is truly a despicable, rat-bastard son of a bitch.

[Bmongilly]

4. Funny song

Anyone remember that funny song that came out in 1979 that went "I can get you some smoke I can score you some coke but I can't get a gallon of gas"?

Gas was 75 cents a gallon then.

That song should be played again now.

[greenbriar]

5. no shit

carter was vilified for it

[KharmaTrain]

6. I Base Gas Price pre & post-bush

About a month before meester booosh's installation in 2001, I filled in suburban Chicago for under $1 a gallon. I remember thinking that night (right after the Florida disaster) that'll be the last time I'll see that low price for a long, long time. I hate when I'm right!!

Last week I saw my first $3 a gallon station and what used to take a $20 bill to fill up 2 years ago, now takes a $50...and my cars average 30MPG...I chuckle at the Hummer hogs and the loans they must have to take out to keep those vanity tanks going. I don't quite see as many as I once did.

The real killer is how the increases in oil prices are rippling across the economy and really crunching people...yet most aren't quite seeing it. This fall when natural gas and fuel oil rise, the prices of getting food collected, processed and to market and so on, if there's not a sharp rise in the inflation rate, we know Greenspan is cooking the books.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Price of high test in north Jersey 1999 was $1.08 a gallon.

Are you better off now than six years ago?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Dupe. Sorry.

[Lefty48197]

11. Gas was about 89 cents per gallon in Michigan right about the time

of the Columbine massacre ('95 or '96, I think). Gas hit about $2.25 in Michigan about six years ago, when a pipeline broke, and they decided it was a good opportunity to gouge us.