Fail. Obama Promised 5 Million Jobs in Campaign Gas Ad… Now Gas Prices Are Up 55% & He’s the Worst Jobs President Since Great Depression

Another broken promise.
Barack Obama attacked the oil industry and promised 5 million new energy jobs in his campaign gas ad.

Now, 24 months into his term, gas prices are up 55%.
Government-funded solar companies are moving to China.

(Heritage)

And 4.4 million people lost their jobs in 2009. That’s the most job losses in a year since 1940.

#1 January 15, 2011 at 3:09 pm
xqqme commented:

i’m surprised that the Russia and BP partnership hasn’t had more analysis.
#2 January 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Henry Hawkins commented:

“I don’t take money from oil companies…”

Bwaaaahahahahahahahaha…….
#3 January 15, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:

What a freaking jackass.
#4 January 15, 2011 at 3:18 pm
bg commented:

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hmmm.. like we’re going to do something about it like we’ve done
something about everything else Obama et al have shoved down
our throats, ergo, it matters because??

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#5 January 15, 2011 at 3:25 pm
pete t commented:

Jesus h you cant leave a blank spot in the chart! Fill it in complete and youll see a different story
#6 January 15, 2011 at 3:36 pm
xqqme commented:

12/06 137,959
12/07 138,495
12/08 135,917
12/09 130,910*
*(revised in 2010 report) 130,969
12/10 130,539

http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm

establishment data Table B-1
#7 January 15, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Carbon Pootprint commented:

Was this made before or after he’d already taken more money from Barack Petroleum than any other politician evah? bawhahahhaha
#8 January 15, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Rock commented:

He approved that message because it is time Washington worked for us not them. Oh really, hey dude you obviously forgot, and Pelosi and Reed never got the memo. What a load of unused body fuel.
#9 January 15, 2011 at 3:44 pm
ogee commented:

His head is up his..er in a bubble.

OT/ What do you think about this? OPERATION BLACK SWAN.
Help send it viral. This affects everyone and their children.
Can someone interview her on their radio show?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7c29E0NqnU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/operation-black-swan-killing-birds-fish-people/
#10 January 15, 2011 at 3:46 pm
L.E.Liesner commented:

Can somebody explain to me why Obama loaned 1 Billion dollars to Brazil for off shore oil drilling, while banning drilling in our country. This is why you don’t elect community organizers to the White House. They know not what they are doing, or if they do they need to be in jail.
#11 January 15, 2011 at 3:48 pm
xqqme commented:

my pal, mish, has an excellent article on this:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/01/hallucinations-on-curing-unemployment.html
Fantasy Models

Baum asks “Why do policy makers persist in perpetrating this fantasy, in asserting something that can’t be proven?”
#12 January 15, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Missy8s commented:

Correction:

Chairman O IS the embodiment “great depression”!
#13 January 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Malaka Joe commented:

Folks,

I am not sure if you understand how science extrapolates to finance, but the NEwtonian principle of inertia applies to economic constructs. That is, it takes TIME for a system to become corrected, and MR. Obama inherited an economic system that represents an almost irresistable force. He needs more months to fashion a viable counterforce. I believe you amateur economists doth protest too much.

He would have been wrong to insinuate in speeches that he could undo the terrible “done”–the refuse/detritus wrought of Mr. Bush; however, he still needs and deserves patience, inasmuch as it took several efforts before Heracles could clean the STygian foulness in the Greek mythology that is now represented by Mr. Bush’s seemingly irremediable, sulfur-soaked policies.

In short, I respectfully disagree.
#14 January 15, 2011 at 4:04 pm
bg commented:

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pete t #5

hey, no one is stopping you, go ahead and post a filled in chart..

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#15 January 15, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Swifty commented:

So, let’s stop talking about an insane nut in Arizona and whether Obama’s latest speech was the new “Gettysburg Address”.

“Remember back when Rome was burning? Yeah, I remember back then when Obama made a speech in Arizona. It was awesome.” Please…

Laser focus. Jobs. Economy. Prosperity.
#16 January 15, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Rick554 commented:

Methinks Malaka doth be full of kaka “folks”
#17 January 15, 2011 at 4:27 pm
avery commented:

Obama,Green energy and electric cars,will sink this country.
#18 January 15, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

According to the Left, it doesn’t matter if you actually get results, so long as you said it well.

Obama’s AZ speech was complete bullsh*t and he didn’t mean a word of it, but because he said it well, the MSM hailed it as “Presidential” and “one of his greatest moments”.
#19 January 15, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Pete, both these charts cover the same 24-month period of time for each president.

When gas when up drastically the second haf of “Oil Man Bush’s” second term, it was arguably because Obama’s friends in OPEC wanted Obama to become president, and so they inflated the price of oil for over a year, to give Obama and the Dems an issue on which to run.

You’ll see a comparable rise soon, though. Don’t you worry your empty little head. We’ll see the price go up over $4, for sure, within a year or so.

Why am I even responding to you?
#20 January 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm
ProLifer commented:

I can hear the fat lady singing!
#21 January 15, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Paul commented:

When will the demorats in Washington start calling for the opening of the reserves. I remeber them lighting it up against Bush. No a sound now! What is up?
#22 January 15, 2011 at 5:50 pm
xiphos commented:

Remember, obama stated that he wouldn’t mind seeing gas at $4.00 a gallon ………. coming soon to a station near you.
$3.55 for regular right now …………. crook county, ILL-nois
#23 January 15, 2011 at 5:56 pm
avery commented:

I heard Obama say back then,he did not mind for it go to $10.00 as long as it did not jump up all a once.
#24 January 15, 2011 at 6:08 pm
squeaky commented:

and then there’s heating oil that is well over $3 per gallon and the hardship it causes the elderly. especially now with more people applying for oil. obama did chastise us about keeping our heat low, but the elderly can only keep it just so low before they have problems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=3
#25 January 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm
The Elector of Saxony commented:

Just wait until Obama delivers on his 4$ a gallon promise. (It’s actually going to hit 5-6$ according to people I know in the oil industry). Working people won’t be able to afford to get to work AND feed their kids anymore. People will fall behind on mortgages, more foreclosures, unemployment will hit 20% and supermarket shelves will be bare…just as they are in every Black-run, Socialist-run country in the world. But that is the plan, so Opie Dopie Obaongo is right on schedule.

The dumb Leftist Rhodesians and the Englishmen who betrayed their colonial Kin there, thought their strong currency, vibrant industry, and intelligent workforce would protect them from Black rule. It couldn’t overcome Black Socialism. Haiti and Zimbabwe are ALWAYS the end result of the road we are on today. If you want hunger, disease, and hospitals with no medicines and poor doctors, just vote for Bama-lama-ding-dong-JayZ again in 2012. You’ll get what you deserve!

Maybe Obama will tell us to put on a sweater and walk to work once energy is too expensive for the “little people”. Just like the third world. Hope you’re looking forward to hunger and disease, America! That’s Change, all right.
#26 January 15, 2011 at 6:39 pm
duncan commented:

Lets see the chart between the 2002 and 2009. Just how stupid do you think we are? Some of these comments about what “Obama” has said would be laughable if it were not so ignorant. This site, along with several others, appeal to the uneducated who live shallow lives and think they are being informed. What they are actually doing is playing right into the hands of polititions that keep them right were they want them. These are people that don’t want facts they just want to be right. Don’t fall for thinking that conservative polititions care about you because they don’t. However, the more you tea partiers buy into it the more you are feeding their ego’s and they are laughing at you. As for you Christians, really? Have you read the words of Jesus?
#28 January 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm
SB commented:

A graph without all the data is USELESS, people.

Here’s a chart of gas prices without the missing data:

the price peaked at about 4.00 / gallon when shrub was still in office…

http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.png
#29 January 15, 2011 at 8:20 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

you and them, thats how leftists bring us together.
#30 January 15, 2011 at 9:00 pm
bg commented:

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btw the chart clearly states the first 2 years, which is fair to compare
since Obama has onlly been around for two years, yeah, i know seems
like forever, but hey, get used to it, cause it’s obvious Obama believes
it’s impossible to see enough of him..

Gasoline prices under Clinton, Bush and Obama

FILL IT IN!! FILL IT IN!!

rotflmbo!!

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#31 January 15, 2011 at 9:13 pm
bitterclinger commented:

You know the only person to have the guts to run that old Ebola campaign ad? Palin.
#32 January 16, 2011 at 12:07 am
silentcal_rox commented:

worst JOBS president my arse! this moron is the worst american president PERIOD, everything he touches turns to s*%t! If we re-elect this imbecile we deserve to be doomed to collapse. Only the voters can send this walking disaster back to chicago, or kenya, or wherever he’s from!
#33 January 16, 2011 at 5:34 am
squeaky commented:

how much of the increase in fuel cost would be tax? so many arguments to keep tract of but at the least i think ma was looking to up the tax. as simplistic as it may sound – the misuse of taxes for every hairbrain scheme is like thinking that you can fill a sieve as in leak like sieve. burning money to create heat. i always had to laugh when i considered the taxes levied on gas for maintenance of the roads always ended up in the general fund as the politicos come back to us hat in hand looking for more money. every time i hear some elected official report money that’s been FOUND in the budget…….they’re able to save this project or that project because the FOUND money in the budget…..someone else just got short changed.
#34 January 16, 2011 at 5:42 am
squeaky commented:

if the hope is that people will drive less something to keep in mind – the less fuel used the less tax income. when people conserve on products that the city/state/fed has a financial interest in……..like an issue i heard – one time a city called for water conservation and the residents were so co-operative that the city was losing money and increased the cost of the water. as foggy as my memory is i think this was also an issue with gas – people heard the call to conserve and the state increased the tax to make up for the lost revenue.
#36 January 16, 2011 at 7:53 am
Henry Hawkins commented:

Let’s see… federal gasoline tax is 18.4, North Carolina tacks on another 30.2, so that’s 48.6 per gallon we’re paying in NC.

I feel guilty, like I should be paying more my fair share. After all, anything extra I have I took from the poor.
#37 January 16, 2011 at 8:12 am
backhoe commented:

As I mentioned here?

http://tinyurl.com/4v8pkv9

“…I hear talk of $4, $5, $6, $7 dollar a gallon gasoline– not to mention heating oil. When we switched Emily’s Mom from oil to electric heat, filling her tank cost $250 a month– at a dollar a gallon– and it was about to cripple her, financially.

You do the math, and think of all the old folks who simply have to have heat, and can’t work anymore to pay any extra.

I think in other terms– down here, a lot of people live in one county, but work one or two counties over, because that’s the only place they could find a job.– we are talking about a 60 mile commute or sometimes 60 miles one way… what are they going to do? They already drive eco-boxes. And these things are beyond shade-tree mechanics– it’s $100 and hour, flat rate, to fix them and keep them going.

And they have to keep them going to keep their jobs– it’s a gerbil wheel existence. “
#38 January 16, 2011 at 9:48 am
Henry Hawkins commented:

Until recently, I drove at least 50 miles one-way to work. That high gas $ summer of 2009 liked to have killed me.
#39 January 16, 2011 at 11:55 am
bg commented:

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“fringe post”

nothing to do with gas prices, or Obama’s sponsors, no no no..

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#40 January 16, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

#10 January 15, 2011 at 3:46 pm
L.E.Liesner commented:

Loan???!!! no no. GAVE 2 billion to petrobras.
Major share holder in petrobras..wait for it……..SOROS.

powder is dry
#41 January 16, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

#13 January 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Malaka Joe commented:

Actually, quite well informed on politics and economics.
Their my favorite hobbies in fact.

The type of Keysian economics NEVER WORKS. Never has.
Stimulus was wrong when Bush did it, Obama doubled down on stupid because he wants America to fail. Then implement socialism.
“fundamentally change America”. I take him at his word.

He’s a saul Alynski accolyte just like hillary.
Both are just evil.
powder is dry
#42 January 16, 2011 at 5:09 pm
bg commented:

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MC #40

posted something about that the other day, i’ll see if i can relocate..

meantime, just a sample..

“Bay of Rigs”

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#43 January 16, 2011 at 6:11 pm
nadadhimmi commented:

Obama received more money from BP than any other candidate, Dem OR GOP. Thats why GE , BP and every other huge International conglomerate love Obama, he’s easier to buy than Bush ever was.