$4 gas is here!

When we last visited this price point it was Bush, Cheney and big oil collusion. Now that we have to tolerate Obama no one mentions this outrage? Certainly nothing from him. Is he oblivious what this is doing Why??? oh why? Seems pretty much double standard to me.

Oh shit, it is probably the fault of the "tea party"!

I'm thinking the difference is due to the fact that, for one of them, the outrage is justified while for the other it isn't.

Gas Prices by County

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How in the world can it be justified for "ONE of them"???? We can't even get this president to talk about it. But I guess WE pay for all his fuel so of course he is not concerned.

Great map! Thanks for posting!

Chilcoot, please explain how the prices are justified for BO

"Chilcoot, please explain how the prices are justified for BO"

Because he is bambam

That is interesting.

(Although the legend has overlapping segments. A gas price of $3.73, for example, could be colored either green or yellow. Yes, I'm a data visualization nerd...)

- Jeff

Nobody "blamed Bush" for high oil prices. They blamed Bush for engineering an energy policy that subsidized Big Oil companies in the midst of record profits.

The same Wall Street jagoffs who caused high oil prices under Bush are doing it again now. Consequently you can blame Bush for removing much of the regulation that limits Wall Street's ability to hoard oil futures.

Oh, and today we are still handing out taxdollar subsidies to companies whose combined profit was over 100 Billion dollars last year (and rising this year)....and take a wild guess which group of people in Washington demand we keep those subsidies in place?

We cant give welfare checks to disabled people with Parkinson's disease...but we can give them to oil companies who are raking in over 100 Billion in profits. At least thats the philosophy of some...

"Nobody "blamed Bush" for high oil prices."

The line parroted by many was "Bush & his oil buddies are manipulating the price of oil"

There are many factors that go into the price of oil. I just find it interesting that the media blamed one president for it but gives another president a pass.