Gas Prices: Where’s the Outrage?

Has anyone noted that retail gasoline prices are up again?  The current national average price of gasoline is in the $2.66 range for regular, $2.95 for the 93 octane I put in my car here in Illinois.  Yet we don’t hear anything about it.

During the Bush administration were treated regularly to howls from Democratic politicians, and the media doing man-on-the-street stories about how the average consumer was being gouged by oil companies – practically having to choose between gas or food.

To listen to the critics it was a national crisis, and naturally those boys from Texas – Bush and Cheney – were in cahoots with the evil oil companies to starve honest hard working Americans.

But here is a fact:

The current price of gasoline, at $2.66 per gallon, is higher than during the first 6 years of the Bush Administration.

You can find the numbers here.  That’s right, even in the midst of recession, when demand should be low, the price of gasoline under the Obama Administration is rising and now exceeds that of three quarters of the supposedly oil dominated Bush Administration.

Given the choice between gas and food, this fact no doubt must be appropriate for great media attention and consternation.  Well, no.  Its just the sound of crickets.  I guess it just doesn’t fit the story line of the Democrats and their media sycophants to complain about the Messiah.

Almost makes you think all the outcry from the political media establishment during the Bush years was…um…insincere.