Murdoch\u2019s Wall Street Journal and Koch-Fueled Cato Agree: \u201cIt\u2019s Not Obama\u2019s Fault That Crude Oil Prices Have Increased\u201d<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWall Street Journal: \u201cU.S. gasoline prices, like prices throughout the advanced economies, are determined by global market forces. It is hard to see how Mr. Obama\u2019s policies can be blamed.\u201d Cato Insti…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But when a major WSJ Op-Ed and the Cato Institute agree that domestic gasoline prices are rising because global oil prices are rising because global oil demand is rising (amongst other worrisome events), one would hope that it would quiet the "It's all a big conspiracy by Obama to make us by Communist Windmillmobiles!" crowd … Continue reading “I still expect to keep hearing it on a daily basis for 8 months more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27475,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/the-cost-of-oil-rains-on-the-just-and-unjust-alike.html","url_meta":{"origin":27061,"position":0},"title":"The cost of oil rains on the just and unjust alike","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Apr-12 5:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The cost of gasoline at American pumps is tied to the global price of oil. 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