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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. People are still running around with this bumper sticker from years ago:
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:29 PM
Oct 2014


What's odd to me is that I was paying up to $4.00 when I bought my 2007 Prius.

That was in 2007!

Hmmm, who was president then?

It's under $4.00 now.

underpants

(182,548 posts)
2. The media only mentions it when it goes up
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:32 PM
Oct 2014

I saw $2.69 ethanol free gas last Monday. Sadly it was in a return trip and I had just gotten gas. Damn!!

unblock

(52,089 posts)
3. are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:32 PM
Oct 2014

people went ape when reagan used this to compare 1984 to 1980.

what a joke! obama should be king by those standards.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
6. Let me prefsce my remarks by saying everything is relative...
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 02:44 PM
Oct 2014

But somebody has done a great job convincing folks these are awful times...

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
7. Here's the graph that reveals the lie and cherry picking of data.
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 06:35 PM
Oct 2014

Thanks to politifact: http://www.politifact.com/subjects/gas-prices/

The highest prices EVER were under GW Bush!

There happened to be a momentary dip, that's the low that people claim was what Obama started with (a lie).

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