A little reminder about gas prices in Jan. 2001

[Roland99]

Just before Bush's inauguration day, on January 15, 2001 the average price of gasoline was $1.46.

Today, the average price of gasoline is $2.78.



"High gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency." - Dick Cheney, 1998

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Where'd you find that Cheney quote!?!?

Perfect!!!

[Roland99]

3. haven't been able to verify it via Google but it's been posted up here b4.

[zbdent]

2. And, before that,

the Repukes were screaming about how Al Gore was going to send gas prices to *gasp* almost $2!!!!

Don't you miss the good ole days of $1.46 a gallon?

[Roland99]

5. $3/gal will cost me about $15 to just visit my mom.

[Roland99]

11. And we officially topped $3/gal here in Louisville today! YAY!!!

http://www.louisvillegasprices.com/

[William769]

4. Oh so looooooong ago!

[Pirate Smile]

6. This Cheney quote might look good in an ad. It seems to be their

current policy. It was in the NYT (which is now in the archives so you have to pay to have direct access):

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Cheney: high gas taxes rock!

by kos
Tue Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:07 AM PDT

Cheney wanted to raise gas prices.

In October 1986, when Dick Cheney was the lone congressman from energy-rich Wyoming, he introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year.
"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing the legislation.

Oil prices had plunged to $15 from nearly $40 a barrel in the early 1980's, as Saudi Arabia flooded world markets, and Mr. Cheney argued the tax was needed to stabilize oil-state economies devastated as a result. But other lawmakers, including some Republicans, criticized the Cheney plan and similar proposals as "snake oil" that would throw 400,000 Americans out of work. They also said then, as President Bush does now, that higher taxes would stall the economy.

Let me highlight the soon-to-be-famous Cheney quote:

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/6/12187/55330

[Roland99]

7. Thanks!

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. A Bush quote about high gas prices in 2000 (ROFL!)

(Long at link. Actually, most of it is kind of funny)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/13/nsst.00.html

"GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't understand why the administration can't get cooperation from countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico. These are countries with which we should have an enormous amount of capital."

But THIS one is priceless: :rofl:
"BUSH: Why can't the administration get any things done in the diplomatic scene? Secondly, there is no plan, it seems like to me, in Washington to increase the supply of crude oil or natural gas."

[Roland99]

10. Well, oil supplies are now at an 8-year high but gas is at record highs

hmm....and the Pretzeldent and his cohort are oil men or cronies of oil men...hmmm...

[bigtree]

13. another

Bush said (then) the Clinton administration should be blamed for prices averaging well over $1.50 per gallon because it squandered the goodwill built with oil producers by his father, former President Bush, in the Persian Gulf War and because it lacks an overall energy policy.

As president, Bush said he would urge Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Mexico to ''open the spigots'' and would remind them of the U.S. role in the 1991 war and of its economic bailout of Mexico.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1448.htm

[LiberalEsto]

9. $2.99 for regular in Central Maryland

and on its way UP.

[SoCalDem]

12. My husband paid $3.35 yesterday

:(