What about those guy prices, nuguy?

They just keep dropping and dropping! You must love Obama now!

c'mon guys. or should I say, c'mon gas.

No, we're not facing deflation.

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

But all this has been quite illuminating. Obama gets blamed for high gas prices, but when they tank, week after week after week, no credit at all from you guys.  

No credit for saving the auto industry either. No credit for blowing bin Laden's head off. No credit for nothing.

If Obama said he liked sunny days, all you fuckers would be singing "I'm Only Happy When It Rains". It's almost like you guys are just looking for reasons to hate him, and rooting for failure. So much for patriotism, eh?

Yes, Presidents can affect the price of gas. They can destabilize the price by releasing the strategic reserve (as Clinton did). You can lower the price by ramping up your rhetoric against oil speculators (as Obama did). You can also push the price up by threating to bomb an oil producer (as Bush did countless times).

But the price of oil is most heavily affected by the economy. The economy has been slowing down, and therefore the price has been going down. When the economy improves, the price will increase again.

Keep that in mind, the next time you bitch about the price being $1.84 when Obama was sworn in.