Sarah Palin: Obama To Blame For High Gas Prices

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted President Obama in a Facebook post on Tuesday, accusing his administration of intentionally pushing energy policies designed to drive up the price of gas.

"His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security," Palin wrote, before laying out three arguments that she used as proof that Obama was working to turn the thumbscrews at the gas pump.

Palin alleged that Obama's signature of a deepwater oil drilling moratorium in the wake of the catastrophic rig explosion last year was just one sign that the president was intent pursuing policies detrimental to American consumers. The ban has since been lifted, and Obama has appeared more than happy to tout his administration's supposed openness to new oil exploration.

Palin then went on to point to Obama's recently failed attempt to cut tax incentives for oil companies and seeming hesitance to green-light Arctic drilling operations as additional evidence of Obama's purported effort to cause pain at the pump.

According to Palin, the residual effects on the price Americans pay for gas was no "accident."

"Let's not forget that in September 2008, candidate Obama's Energy Secretary in-waiting said: 'Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.' That's one campaign promise they're working hard to fulfill!" she wrote. "Hitting the American people with higher gas prices like this is essentially a hidden tax and a transfer of wealth to foreign regimes who are providing us the energy we refuse to provide for ourselves."

Comments

[Joe Neri]

03:11 AM on 04/09/2011

Who says you always have to drive a car to get somewhere?

[Kevin Eichhorn]

04:25 PM on 04/05/2011

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[99er2049er]

03:24 PM on 03/27/2011

Even if we drilled more in the U.S., the oil companies do not pass this savings on to the U.S., they sell to the world. And what about more BP type spills? Can we not invest in alternative energy?

Sarah Palin should just stay at home where she belongs. The sound of her voice is like metal claws on a chalkboard!

[hauruck]

09:09 AM on 04/05/2011

SEXY metal claws...

[mojorain]

12:16 AM on 05/01/2011

Ok, I'll give ya sexy, but you must be desperate.

[Henry Torres]

09:01 AM on 03/23/2011

The government is controlled by large powerful companies. Once you realize that you will see that all this is just for show. Oil companies, Banks, and Wall Street have all the control. in about 20 to 30 years when the middle cass is nearly extinct the powers that be will realize that they screwed up and by then it will be to late.

[99er2049er]

03:25 PM on 03/27/2011

Agreed. Why don't we just stop the sham and change our entire system from president, senators, congressmen - to voting for CEO's directly. It's pathetic what we have allowed corporations to do to our country!

[yak2664]

03:29 PM on 03/22/2011

Sarah has her conservative priorities straight at least. Teachers in Wisconsin make too much money but shame on Obama for trying to cut the poor, poor oil companies tax incentives!

[SteveS62]

05:08 PM on 03/21/2011

There's a small -- very small and accidental -- element of truth in her statement that Obama is responsible for increases in oil prices. But it's nothing like what she'd ever admit.

Obama's part in the rise in oil prices is that he pushed through the stimulus plan, and although it was too small and too full of suck-up compromises, it _has_ helped the economy recover somewhat from Bush's near-depression. And because the economy has recovered somewhat, demand for commodities -- including oil -- has increased, which naturally pushes up prices.

In other words, oil prices are rising -- in part -- because Obama has helped rescue the economy from Bush's disastrous policies.

However, the main thing driving oil prices up has nothing to do with anything domestic. It's because unrest in Libya drive worries that oil supplies will be disrupted. There's nothing like a crisis in a place that supplies a lot of oil to push up prices.

[99er2049er]

03:27 PM on 03/27/2011

Oil speculators are so good at finding reasons to bump up the price. It's $4.23 in Los Angeles. Which of course gives every business a chance to jack up their rates and add gas charges to their products and services.

It's like someone above just keeps taking a giant hammer and slamming us poor people. Each time we start see the light, they slam us back into the ground again.

[SteveDenver]

10:24 AM on 03/21/2011

Why doesn't she say "DRILL BABY DRILL" anymore? That's all this is, an extension of that tirade.

[TheRealPlacebo]

08:30 PM on 03/19/2011

I just have no respect for Palin and it's impossible for me to take anything she says seriously. I wish she would just go on the Daily Show already so Jon can put her in her place.

[99er2049er]

03:28 PM on 03/27/2011

She has no clue about how to run a government, but she sure knows how to open her mouth and complain about everyone in charge. Perhaps she should pick up some of those magazines and newspapers that Katie Couric asked her about.

[TheRealPlacebo]

03:48 PM on 03/27/2011

Amen to that

[sunsetter]

10:13 AM on 03/19/2011

We could have started plans for drilling ten years ago but the dems opposed saying it would take ten years to get the oil pumping. Apparently dems don't believe in clocks, they only live in the present election cycle.

[LordBeaker]

11:14 PM on 03/20/2011

We could have started building sustainable energy in the 70's but Conservatives said it would take too decades to come to a point where it would keep us from relying on foreign oil...

See how that that works?

[JackStark]

02:17 PM on 03/21/2011

Too bad you and Palin do not understand how this all works. There is no oil shortage. Pumping more of our oil will not lower the global price of oil, it will just make us run out faster.

[Vgman]

06:39 AM on 03/19/2011

I really wish they would stop covering Palin and everything she says. She has no economic background, no science background, all she knows how to do is to be a professional critic of anything that comes from the left. The news needs to cover more "important" things instead of the Lohans, Kardashians, and the Palins of the world. If the news agencies must cover these people, put them where they belong- in the entertainment/Gossip section.

[nofencerider]

11:07 PM on 03/19/2011

She's just a reactionary for political gain without many creative cells in her limited brain. Obama has to see the entire big picture all the time knowing more about it every moment than we do. We know more than in previous administrations (like Bush 1 and 2) but some deal making has to be in private. We can't settle on one energy source. It just won't work. We are way too dependent on oil and must begin to give up our childish excesses as most other people in the world have. That's your giant pick-up when you have no reason to need one, boys. That's the super big SUV when an economical model using less fuel would work just as well, taxi moms. The USA IS the energy HOG of the world and it can't go on forever. We are spoiled BRATS. Time to reign in and be better stewards of our resources, not find ways to used them up even faster as Palin would suggest.

[Vgman]

11:35 AM on 03/20/2011

Agree on everything you said.

[Thisboy]

07:05 PM on 03/20/2011

Isn't that the truth? How about the homes that are three times bigger and energy consuming then needed?

[lynn2929]

05:37 PM on 03/20/2011

and no brain

[banana republican]

05:38 AM on 03/19/2011

He's not to blame for today's high gas prices but he's most definately to blame for tomorrows.

[dragonmaster]

05:18 AM on 03/19/2011

For someone who denies the science of global warming, denies the fact that we are adding C02 to the atmosphere at a rate in 150 years that during natural climate change took 10-20 thousand years or more- and blindly ignores paleo climate history (if she knows what that is) and denies that human civilization by 2100 could be finished- Palins lame attack on Obama seems outrageous , but from an air head like her, its not surprising.

We have had decades to come up with alternative energy- but have done nothing but enrich fossil fuel companies.

[BrianJackson]

02:25 AM on 03/19/2011

She's not even qualified to be president of cyberspace....

[Murdale]

09:07 PM on 03/18/2011

Oh for Pete' sake. Can she get any more stupid?

[99er2049er]

03:30 PM on 03/27/2011

Yes, she can!

[H P]

04:40 PM on 03/18/2011

I just discovered the source of global warming... all the hot air coming out of Sarah Palin.