{"id":5035,"date":"2012-03-22T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2012-03-22T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:04:57","slug":"if-bush-had-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"If Bush had said it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/22\/obamateurism-of-the-day-710\/\" target=\"_blank\">HotAir<\/a>, apparently President Obama thinks the price of oil is hovering around $1.25 a barrel. Per his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/03\/21\/remarks-president-energy\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> to Sempra Energy,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have subsidized oil companies for a century.  We want to encourage production of oil and gas, and make sure that wherever we&#8217;ve got American resources, we are tapping into them.  But they don\u2019t need an additional incentive when gas is $3.75 a gallon, when oil is $1.20 a barrel, $1.25 a barrel.  They don\u2019t need additional incentives.  They are doing fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet this snip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oil-price.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">oil-price.net<\/a> shows the price to be hovering about 100 times that amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5034\" title=\"oil-prices-120322\" src=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honest mistake or intentional gaffe that leaves the impression that oil companies are gouging and, consequently, do not need government subsidies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From HotAir, apparently President Obama thinks the price of oil is hovering around $1.25 a barrel. 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