BANGOR, Maine — The owners of Union Street Citgo signed up for a promotion funded by a conservative political action committee to provide 150 customers with gas at $1.84 a gallon. On Wednesday, drivers eager to save a buck got into a line that stretched for half a mile.
“It is completely nonpolitical,” gas station owner Sarah Wardwell said as she washed a customer’s windshield. “It’s a chance to offer our customers a great price on gas.”
The gas price rollback was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity-Maine, a chapter of the conservative political action committee composed of activists “who advocate and promote limited government, lower taxes and more freedom,” the chapter’s website states.
The group said the reduced price per gallon paid by customers in Bangor on Wednesday is what residents paid for gas when President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
“Here in Maine, President Obama’s failing green energy policies have us counting every penny and putting America deeper into debt,” Carol Weston, Maine state director for the group, said in a statement posted on the website. “That’s why we’re offering reduced price gas this Wednesday, to help and give a voice to the countless Mainers who oppose the policies of this administration.”
In 2008, gas prices in the U.S. topped $4 a gallon — with the peak in July 2008 of $4.11 a gallon — but dropped dramatically to a national average of $2.40 a gallon on Election Day and to about $1.84 when Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009, according to Consumer Reports.
Three of the 150 people who got gas on Wednesday — Bangor residents Janice Martinez, Joelle Milliken and Jay Stanhope — were thrilled to take advantage of the low-price offer. All three were driving by and noticed the red illuminated sign that read $1.84.
“I’m stoked,” said Martinez, who waited about an hour to fill up. “I would have waited five hours.”
“We were going to my house, which is right over there and saw the line,” Milliken said. “We thought, ‘What is this line for?’ Then we saw the price.”
Stanhope’s big Chevy truck typically costs $70 to fill and he spends about $30 a day running it for his job, he said.
“This is bigger than most states,” he joked about his gas-guzzler.
On Wednesday, he and everyone else in line got 15 gallons of gasoline for $27.74.
“They’re saving $30 on 15 gallons,” said Wardwell. “People work week to week, so saving $30 is huge.”
Because customers’ cars were snaked down the side of Union Street, past the city pool, police officers stopped by the gas station to see how long the promotion would last, Wardwell said. It started at noon and ended just before 3 p.m.
The 150 local Union Street Citgo customers saved a bundle.
“They saved about $3,500,” said Nate Wardwell, a co-owner of the gas station.
The current price for gas is just shy of $3.80 a gallon, he said.
So, it’s nonpolitical but it is about the myth that the President somehow controls gas prices… riiiiight. This was a political stunt meant to confuse low information voters. Remember when the national average for a gallon of gas was over $4 under Bush’s watch? I bet nobody mentioned that.
absolutely right…..and a tax grab for the station owner..no doubt!!people will eat up the idea though!!
Actually, the article did mention the $4 Bush-era price.
We know who the owner is not voting for……..
Many of us are not voting for Obama, why would we?
Because he has done a great job at getting us out of the recession
Must be some good s**t you’re smokin’.
wow, really? Are you blind or just stooopid?
Ah, but this wasn’t a political thing…..but all the statements around it make me think that they should have just come right out and said it was and that the owner is not voting for Obama, end of story.
I mean after all the President has nothing to do with gas prices, because if he did, wouldn’t the prices be under $2 by now? This article is a pretty good read, supply and demand influences prices, why are people not complaining it is the Presidents fault a head of lettuce is higher then it was when he took office?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49461923
When Barrack Obama took office, gas in Bangor sold for $1.84. I just drove by a station selling it for $3.84. That’s a 209% increase due to the policies of Obama and democrats. Face it, he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Only a democrat could stop a depression, increase employment for 31 months straight, increase oil production, end a war, get Bin Laden, and double the Dow, then be told he’s done a lousy job as President.
I see you’ve been fact checking on moveon.org
and the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Washington Post…….
Yes, the stock market has recovered but the GOP won’t mention that inconvenient truth either. The Maine chapter of The Americans for Prosperity is chaired by former Maine state senator Carol Weston. Former senator Weston is also the chair of the Friends of Fort Knox. You might recall that governor LePage recently gave, er leased, Fort Knox to the FOFK and then held a rally at the Fort for the Americans for Prosperity. They even had Howie Carr speak! In my opinion The Americans for Prosperity are an extremist right-wing group that seeks to subjugate America’s citizens through political manipulation and promotion of the GOP agenda to feudalize America. Beware fellow Americans.
Ask anyone who works in the investment filed and they will tell you the market is due to go down again. Prices are still over inflated.
Keep saying that long enough and it will be true. All predictions about the stock market come true sometime, some just take longer. The real purpose of predictions of doom is scare mongering.
More liberal mouthwash.
The Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily are liberal??? What do you read, articles on how to house and feed slaves on $1/day?
Yes it is all about democrat voters.
Yes, they all are. The media is so liberal in this country it is sickening. Liberalism creates controversy, controversy creates readers and watchers, readers and watchers create ratings, ratings create revenue. Look at the news before, and after the 60’s. Once the media found out how much news the protesters created, they completely switched their way of reporting. Before we had an hour of news, local and nightly. Now we have endless supplies of talking heads running at the mouth. You have to create controversy to keep all those channels going.
“endless supplies of talking heads …” like Glenn Beck and and Faux News and Trash Slimebaugh? Just wondering!
That is all FACT, NOT GOP BS.
How did he stop a depression when we are still in it? How did he increase employment when it’s still the same as when he took office? And how could he increase oil production when he put a moratorium on it? And I’m glad he ended a war that he was forced to do, by a law signed by GEORGE BUSH that stated that troops must be withdrawn by 12-31-11. And get Bin Laden? Please, it was years and years of searching for him by intelligent men and women of our Armed Forces. He just had to give the OK. And if your buddy Bill Clinton had done something about him the FIRST time they tried to bomb the WTC, we wouldn’t have had this problem to begin with. These are all FACTS!! NOT DEM BS
Get up to date. Obama put a moratorium on off shore drilling for a few months after the BP oil spill. After it was determined that it probably would not happen again(?), he rescinded the moratorium. We are producing the most oil since 1997, and by next year more than since 1992, if things stay on course.
Clinton??? If Ronald Reagan had aided the soviets in conquering Afghanistan instead of giving arms and money to the Taliban, none of the attacks on US forces or territory would have happened. Bin Laden would not have had training camps and bases from which to launch his attacks. How far back do you want to go to find a democrat to blame?
How about Truman, for not ordering the invasion of North Korea at the end of WWII” Instead he allowed, even asked, the Russians and Chinese to invade to capture the remaining Japanese soldiers. He even allowed the Soviets to march into Berlin, instead of starting a war with them.
I love discussing history with people who can not even remember the last ten years so have to get their info from rich druggies on radio, or comedies disguised as news.
One month, than how come a judge declared the administration in contempt in Feb 2011 for not complying with the mandate? And you really expected Reagan to side with the Soviets in the early 80’s? What planet are you from? And there was no threat to this country from any Taliban when Reagan was in office, and we had not been attacked by them. And it’s your liberal media that exploits facts to spin their liberal agenda. I choose NOT to watch the news because I find the talking heads mindless.
So you admit the moratorium was short term (1 month). So that means your statement about him not increasing oil production was a mistake? a misjudgement? a lie?. Your ignorance of current events and recent history is glaring. Do your research before posting Faux news comedy, and maybe you will gain some credibility.
Wayno, your hate is showing, the recession is technically over, we are on the way to getting fu(as full as it gets) employment. Now you can push your TEA Bagger BS, but you are on the losing side of the argument. Grow up and see the future.As to George W saying when the Iraq war would end……His main statement was that another President would have to end it. It wpould not be him.
“Technically” over. Is that like technically drunk? Full employment? Where do you live where we have full employment? Last time I checked more than 23 million people were without work, and unemployment over %10. Yes %10, I don’t care what the numbers show. Very convenient that they fell below %8, 1 month before the election. And of course he said another President would half to pull them out, his term was up. But I can’t blame you for being misinformed, your liberal media fills your head with lies all day, every day.
I said that we were on our way to full employment, you my friend need to remember that it was the GOP controlled congress that got us into this mess, not the democrats. Bush doing the republican thing of deregulation and not paying for 2 wars and 2 tax cutrs that were not needed.
The reason for the $1.85 gas when Obama took office is because construction and industry were paralyzed, so demand was low. Thanks to George W. Bush, and the policies that Romney embraces, the United States tottered on the brink of total chaos.
you lie .. again…. these policies at the end of Bush’s term were not his.. they belonged squarely to the democrats who has a majority in the last two years.. and Obama supported these economic disatrous policies and just for kicks obama has this same majority in his first two years and did absolutely nothing….. and by the way .. where in the world did you get the idea that Romney embraces these nutty policies.. oh you listened to the liar in chief debate ..yeah I heard obama say that as well… nice on.. but not true…
It is Bush and Romney who want to cut taxes for the rich and slash government. This pumps up the deficit. And these are clearly Republican policies.
Bush who spearheaded the Iraq war, with Colin Powell telling the world that a satellite photos showed chemical weapons factories in Iraq. Later, Bush admitted there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. No Al Qaeda. And you think Bush is a great man?
As President, Bush could have vetoed any legislation that Congress brings to him. So even if Democrats controlled Congress, and lead the charge to destroy the economy (which they didn’t) he could have vetoed. But he didn’t.
Your view crumbles on that fact alone.
Wall Street, unregulated, led the charge to annihilate the economy in 2008. And Wall Street has always given more money to Republicans than Democrats, except in the Obama vs. McCain race. Why? They knew the Republican would lose, given how badly George W. Bush had done.
The American people, wisely, voted the Republicans out of power.
If Pres. Obama’s policies were responsible for free market cost of gasoline over the past four years, which are inline with world wide free market costs, so just the deregulated free market solution that conservatives advocate, then his policies are responsible for the recovery in the past four years, too.
See: http://www.businessinsider.com/are-you-better-off-than-4-years-ago-charts-2012-9?op=1
Please note what happened when conservatives gained control of Congress two years ago, as well.
“The cost of gas in June of 2008, the early stages of the heavy summer driving season and during the presidential campaign, was $4.10 per gallon. The 2008 gas crisis hit its peak one month later with prices averaging $4.11 per gallon.”
This conservative PAC is actually celebrating the Bush Recession !!!
Do YOU want more of that ?
Why does Americans for “Prosperity”-Maine and the 1% ?
LMAO
LOL, he didn’t do ANY of those things, that’s why he’s toast in November. What country are you living in?
Don’t get out much. eh?
Romney took the Electoral vote lead today.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
Can you say President Romney? Practice makes perfect you know.
Seems there is some disagreement on this: http://www.politico.com/2012-election/swing-state/?hp=l7 . Dated today with your website cited as its source? How does that make sense?
It Politicos’ interpretation of RCP aggregated statistics. Politico also has a narrower margin of error.
That is what I thought the case might be. Thanks for confirming. I know you know I am liking the Politico assessment better. But we will all have to live with the outcome, make the best of it whatever it might be.
:)
Bush and TARP ended the financial crisis. You need to get your facts straight before people will take you seriously. That was 4 years ago. The stimulus created some jobs but did not create a foundation for future employment and that is why the economy has slowed down every year since.
Saying Bush ended the financial crisis and that someone else needs to get their facts straight in the same sentence?
I’m not surprised you don’t know the facts. You probably also believe that the Bush tax cuts had something to do with the financial crisis, when they actually generated more federal revenue than at any time in our history.
Instead of believing what the Heritage Foundation spreads around, why not check out the Congressional Budget Office report, which directly contradicts that? Even conservative economists agree that the Bush tax cuts would (and did) add to the deficit.
Wrong. Here is an actual link to support my claims from the White House Offices of Budget and Management: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
If liberals were educated in economics, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
So…Bush took a big surplus and turned it into a big deficit, but the Bush tax cuts increased federal revenue? I guess the unpaid for wars and giant prescription drug giveaway that was unpaid for (all passed by Bush and GOP house and senate) must have added federal revenue too, right?
Seriously, you are WAY off.
Well, that would explain the profits of Halliburton and their subsidiaries.
It’s a fact. Check any website showing federal revenue and you will see that it was at it’s highest during the Bush years. The reason we had a deficit was due to an increase in spending, not a loss of revenue. Educate yourself.
Bush spent way too much and Obama has doubled his spending. We had a surplus during the last year of Clinton’s term because federal spending was less than half of what we spend today.
One of Reagan’s advisers, Bruce Bartlett, just had an article in the New York Times, Business Day section, which refutes your statement completely. The title is “The Fiscal Legacy of George W Bush”.
The employment growth the economy has shown over the last 3 years is a piddling amount and has not even covered population growth much less the millions that have left employment rolls and are no longer counted as unemployed. Obama has put millions on food stamps and millions more on permanent disability. Hardly signs of a booming economy.
Normally recoveries are “V” shaped, as dramatic on the upswing as they were on the down. Example: Clinton had two months consecutive months of 800k Job growth 1.6 million new jobs and Obama jumps up and down with 114K. You don’t have a recovery so bad unless you don’t know what you are doing.
Domestic Oil production increased on federal lands only because Bush approved federal leases on new wells that generally take 3 years to go online. Obama has approved ZERO federal oil leases on federal land since taking office. The current increase in domestic oil production is due to the Bush oil policy which Obama has tried to slow down.
Bush ended the Iraq war not Obama. All Obama did was go through with signed agreements already in place when he took office. Obama did nothing.
The doubling of the Dow is purely because of the Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing policy. The growth in the Dow is not organic in nature but merely a false asset bubble because of that policy. It is all smoke and mirrors and when that asset bubble collapses lots of people are going to get hurt and there will be even higher unemployment as a result. ( I don’t mind though as anyone that is a market watcher is making money, but as I said its a false bubble.)
Hi Cheesey…how is it Obama’s fault people qualify for permanent disability? Don’t those people have to have some sort of illness to qualify for permanent disability? How is that Obama’s fault?
There is a far larger percentage of the population on disability now than four years ago. Why? You tell me. During periods of high unemployment the number always rises.
I wish I had an answer. I suppose it goes to the people who decide the disability cases. Are you implying wrongdoing on those who decide disability cases? I don’t know Cheesey…perhaps as the huge number of baby boomers get older that would account for the number of people on disability?
I think the latter is probably more the case. Maybe older people not yet eligible for regular Social Security, now unemployable lacking skills, but that doesn’t explain the explosion in the number of child dependents living with disability recipients.
I’d say the Great Economic Crash caused by George W. Bush, and the existence of two wars started by Bush, and which he bungled badly, have a lot to do with it.
A few months after Obama took office, the Dow dropped to 6000. Gas was at 1.85 because there was very little industry or construction taking place, so demand was low. The United States was paralyzed, thanks to George W. Bush and the policies that Romney is planning to adopt.
Evidence that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Very little knowledge and a hard left turn.
A lot of vets are double-tracking(filing for SSDI plus VA benefits and seeing which comes through first)
Also the original ADA was passed and signed in 1990 by -wait for it-GHWB.
ADA added onto along with gigantic unfunded prescription drug benefit for the old people and Big Pharma/Big Ins.Both signed by-wait for it-GWB-2008 and 2005 respectively.This is the same ADA that allows millions under 40 to claim some fake mental disability.THERE are your budget busters.
You may be right….I don’t know. You may be wrong. Again, I don’t know. I’m having trouble with the use of your word “fake”. Are you suggesting psychologists and psychiatrists are intentionally diagnosing some of their patients in order to game the disability system?
It’s more like if someone already has a diagnosis and they land at another provider then it’s easy money.
A link to your “facts” please?
Normally a recovery takes an average of 3 years. This one was compounded by the housing collapse on top of bank failures, which reduced credit, meaning people could not borrow for new purchases.
None the less every post war recovery has been accompanied by an increase in employment levels. This is not the case in this “recovery”.
This recession was deeper than anyone (meaning economists) thought at the time it occurred. Strong enough steps were not taken and consequently it is a much slower recovery than anyone hoped for. Jobs have been added for 31 consecutive months, again not as many as was hoped for. The strength of the stock markets indicates the investors, ie the big money, believe it is going to continue to improve. The housing market has just shown an improvement also. It would be foolish to go back to the policies which got us into this position to begin with, which is what Romeny appears to want to do. Even some of Reagan’s advisers are saying that Romney’s policies will not work, and in fact will make it worse. As I have said before, Obama is not perfect, or even great, but his policies are slowly bringing us out of the recession. I did not support his candidacy and do not like some of his policies, but certainly do not want to return to the wars and giveaways that the last administration was known for.
Deep recessions historically are followed by recoveries just as sharp. “V” We don’t have that. Why?
My two cents.
1) Financial regulations that constrain small business borrowing.
2) High Energy Costs
3) Low housing values.
Edit: Your 31 month of “growth” do not even make up for the natural population growth as people enter working age.
Low housing values and lack of lending as well as high energy costs are certainly causes. Obama has pushed fewer regulations that GW Bush, but remember it was in part due to lax regulations on the financial markets that got us here to begin with.
I would add crooked bankers and brokers were also a major factor. And one of the things I am disappointed in from the Obama administration is the lack of prosecutions of crooked financiers.
Financial regulations are not only aimed at big banks and Wall st. The financial regulation bill was also aimed directly at funding mechanisms of small business.
Example: I own commercial property out right. My banker tells me that I cannot borrow against that building to start a second non-related business. I asked why and she mouthed the words “FinReg”. That means a person I had intended to hire is not working.
The funding mechanism that helped small business in the past no longer exist. When you think of Fin Reg don’t concern yourself with the bankers themselves on Wall Street. They are fine. The problem lies with how that law was applied to small guys.
Increase from what? Where do you start? You dispute the jobs added since it all tanked?
No, Its just not what it should be. Normally the deeper the recession the more dramatic the recovery. Not this time. My question is why?
Look how long it took us to get out of the Great Depression, over a decade. The Great Recession, caused by George W. Bush, is a similar economic pit–and after four years Obama has already started turning it around, despite major obstruction by the GOP, the party of “No.”
Romney’s policies are Bush’s policies, and will drive us into the hole again. More money for the rich, and taking away public jobs and private jobs that depend on public jobs. Taking away government stimulus that creates jobs, and — like LePage — not allowing bond projects that create jobs.
Of course, Romney refuses to give any details of his plan, so we have no idea what he will do exactly, except this:
Romneytaxplan.com
Your comments are bogus because Obama is President and PROMISED change and he did not deliver. Where we are today is a direct result of democrat policies and President Obama. Obama is a failure. Obama needs to go.
Sooo…your saying that recoveries are usually V shaped, and the Dow’s fall and recovery from 2007-2012 is V shaped, but somehow that’s false? Your different points contradict themselves.
Also, using the “normal recovery” analogy makes no sense, because this was not an average crisis that Obama was left with. It was the worst one in 75 years. You guys would have George Bush’s face on the Nickle if he had stopped a depression, increase employment for 31 months straight, increase oil production, ended a war, killed Bin Laden, and doubled the Dow.
Those things you attribute to Obama he just simply did not do. Oil production was Bush oil policies come to fruition years later. It takes a minimum of three years to go through the production licensing process for each new oil well. Obama did not do that. . We will likely face a drop in new oil coming online over the next few years because of that.
The growth in the Dow has nothing to do with the growth of the businesses that make it up as would normally be the case in a stock rise. The stock value is rising not because the underlying value of the companies has grown. It is because of the excess money laying around as a result of quantitative easing. The Fed (and presumably Obama) hope the companies will put this money to work. That hasn’t happened. That’s why the Fed has promised another $30 billion per month until employment rises. Business loves it.
I LOVE this logic.
Good things: All residuals of Bush’s policies, Obama did nothing.
Bad things: How dare you keep blaming Bush, it’s all Obama’s fault!
Hilarious!
The Agreement that ended US military involvement in Iraq was negotiated by Condi Rice and was signed in Iraq on November 17, 2008. The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker signed the agreement in an official ceremony.
Obama had nothing to do with that.
Actually the Fed is responsible for the QE1,2 & 3. There will be repercussions. When stocks rise for reasons other than underlying value they crash eventually. Sometimes they take people jobs with them.
I don’t think I excused Bush from any of his failings.
Corporate profits are at record highs (as is CEO compensation). Large firms are sitting on trillions in cash reserves. As inflation is historically low, you can’t just blame the Fed for printing money. Companies are investing overseas due to cheap labor costs, so the high profits on Wall Street are not “tricking down” to Main Street. That is why further tax cuts on cap gains or high end earners will not accomplish much. The Dow numbers are more than a mirage.
If there is a blowback, it will not be due to any actions of the Fed, or the fundamentals on Wall Street. It will be the damaging effects of the sequester taking place in Jan 2013 that will pull hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy in almost every innovative section you can think of. The President is and has been willing to compromise things he believes in in order to reach a deal….maybe the right wing can learn to compromise just a touch as well?
Like I said they business awash in money. Underlying fundamentals which normally drives stock prices are not. Business is not growing. Banks aren’t lending. (finreg) People are not being hired. The Fed pumping money into the system in order to move employment numbers is folly. Stock prices love it…. But business fundamentals remain the same. No growth that necessitates hiring.
If business has so much money why does the Fed find it necessary to prime the system?
As for compromise. Obama threw that baby out with the bathwater 2 months into his administration when he told Republican leadership (effectively) that he didn’t need them.
Well Cheesey, look at it this way. Perhaps Obama “threw that baby out with the bathwater 2 MONTHS into his administration” because on DAY ONE Mitch McConnell vowed to do everything in his power to Make Obama a one term president. That says to me Obama didn’t feel he would ever have any compromise. Is it not true McConnell and a few of his Republican cohorts held a meeting the very night Obama was elected to do everything in their power to stop any forward movement of Obama to fix our country? Dunno Cheesey, that would have p!ssed me off to if I were trying to fix this mess.
He didn’t say that until after the White House Meetings where Obama made his statement.
Correct you are….
I stand corrected (another post, another day) “There is no doubt that McConnell said he wanted to make Obama a one-term president. But he did not say it at the start of Obama’s term; instead, he made his comments at the midpoint, after Obama had enacted many of his preferred
policies.” I do think it is very important to not add to lies and distortions. Will fact check myself more carefully. Cannot find any reference to blaming Obama for this statement though.
“Fredo, you’re my older brother and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.” ~~~~~~Michael
Wasn’t that when Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said that he would not approve any legislation that would get “that man” re-elected?
I keep reminding people of that, but they would rather listen to the liberal media because they always have the facts straight.(sacrsam)
Funny how liberal facts resemble lies.
That becomes the problem for a Presidential Candidate when he has no accomplishments he favors enough to actually run on.
So in other words, at least according to your logic Cheesey, Obama is responsible for all of the bad, but gets no credit for any of the good.
I don’t know if I said that. I just think that the things people say he did, he didn’t do. It must be really hard to find things that Obama did if a supporter has to say he ended the War in Iraq and gave confidence to the stock market as his big claim to fame. One belongs to George Bush before Obama came to office and the other to Bernanke and the Federal Reserve that certainly pumped the market but is fraught with risk.
Heck, they’d make a whole new denomination coin if that had happened. May I suggest the 3 pointed hats denomination to represent Bush, Cheney, and Rumsefeld?
Since dems are so wonderful, any theory on why Clinton (a dem) didn’t get Bin Laden when he had countless opportunities in the 90s?
If you think Obama had much of anything to do with getting Bin Laden, you are delusional. You keep drinking the Obama kool aid. The rest of us know he is the worst president we have ever seen. He keeps talking, yet says nothing.
Sorry, no theory. I like dealing in facts independently verified. But I do sometimes wonder why Reagan, the guy who raised taxes 11 times and traded arms to Iran, didn’t invade China.
Just for your information, when a military action is carried out, the credit is usually given to the commander-in-chief, unless of course he is a democrat. Now, get off your arrogant and ignorant mind set and look at the facts as provided by independent analysts. Sorry, that excludes Faux news, the Heritage Foundation, Rmoney the Chinese agent, etc.
And you might note that is you that is saying Obama is so wonderful. No one else, democrat, independent, or republicant, has said that.
“The cost of gas in June of 2008, the early stages of the heavy summer driving season and during the presidential campaign, was $4.10 per gallon. The 2008 gas crisis hit its peak one month later with prices averaging $4.11 per gallon.”
This conservative PAC is actually celebrating the Bush Recession !!!
Do YOU want more of that ?
Why does Americans for “Prosperity”-Maine and the 1% ?
LMAO
I hope this is sarcasm you posted on your part. Either that or I want some of what your smokin’.
Belive anything you just said and I’ll sell you the Sarah Mildred Long bridge.
I just dug out my gas slips from 2008 and we paid $3.55 to $4.05 for gas in Newport which we usually lower than Bangor or Waterville so someone is not telling the truth.
You do know that using the price of gas when Obama took office to bash Obama is actually do the opposite right? The reason gas was 1.84 was not because we were doing great, but because the economy became contracted so much. Demand for Oil Plummeted. That is why it was so cheap. Higher gas prices means greater demand for oil. So the fact that gas prices went up is actually an indication that the economy picked up. When the economy picks up oil prices do not go down, they go up because demand for them increases and more stuff is on the move. So pointed out low gas prices to bash Obama does the exact opposite, it just points out the fact that when he came into office we were a mess.
I quit a crappy second part-time job in 2007 because gas was well over $3.50 a gallon so I was burning more getting there than I was making.
A sitting president (either party) has very little to do with gas prices. He just makes a convenient ‘target’ for people who like to rant about what they can’t control. I say that about both Obama and Bush.
This whole exercise was pointless Union St. Citgo, but oh well…it’s your dime.
Dear low information voter.Prices are set by supply and demand.Anything else would be collusion by the oil industry to control prices.
Fact is, you insist on comparing apples to oranges and only prove you don’t know what you are saying … but you spout the party line so superbly well! Try FACTS!
no, I didn’t notice.
Only you and your 100+ comrades believe your nonsense. Obama is going to lose this election and we will see the left in this country come unhinged. Once again the homeless, high gas and food prices and the war will be mentioned daily.
Democrats who feed into the liberal media lie are the only “low information” voters I know.
No way did gas peak at $4.11 in Maine. I distinctly remember prices going up to $4.25 in late summer 2008 before starting to go down again. And this was a stunt. Prices are never going below $2 a gallon again.
it’s time to bring horse & buggies Jesus tap dancing christ!
But Bachmann guaranteed it-remember?Just like everything else she says-wrong!
“It is completely nonpolitical,” gas station owner Sarah Wardwell said as she washed a customer’s windshield. “It’s a chance to offer our customers a great price on gas.”The gas price rollback was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity-Maine, a chapter of the conservative political action committee composed of activists “who advocate and promote limited government, lower taxes and more freedom,” the chapter’s website states.
Yeah I believe her….NOT
Americans for Prosperity is a powerful lobbying group
founded with backing of moguls David and Charles Koch. Who is surprised? They are behind voter suppression and now buying voters. Classy act.
You’re complaining about a measly promotion for 150 people as “buying voters” when millions upon millions of Americans have had their votes bought by more and more entitlement spending?
Pot? I’d like you to meet kettle…
What in the world are you talking about? All that the 1% feel entitled to? Because no one I know is entitled to anything but their paycheck.
You didn’t build that (sentence yourself did you)?
Yup, and proud of it. What have you built that you are proud of?
A sensible, conservative reputation.
Great answer. It is reassuring to know there are sensible conservatives. I actually have quite a few acquaintances who are members of this group.
lol, one of my favorite sayings.
They’re just taking a page from the Democrats’ playbook.
Democrats are giving away gas? No, I think that is a ploy used only by the 1% who think money is the only motivator/goal in life. Most of us have other motivations/goals.
Hopefully at least some of those in line took their savings and donated it to Planned Parenthood.
Charles Koch yapped about how his family needs security due to threats.As if. That’s nothing more than conservative salting meant to disparage real Americans.
Real Americans threaten other people?
These supposed liberal threats don’t exist.The most dangerous people in America are the clinic bombers and funders who get away with literal murder and violence.
You haven’t been paying attention to the Romney death threats have you.
Great points, thanks!
If it had been completely political, she’d have denied dems gas.
Not to be rude, but are people really this stupid?
You think sequence proves causation? Really?
So if I eat cheeseburgers everyday for 8 years, then suddenly decide I need to go on a diet and start eating salads. A month after eating salads, I have a heart attack. Are you going to try and tell me that the salads are what caused the heart attack?
Please use your brains people. Quit looking for a scapegoat — an easy answer.
Not to be rude, but wolfndeer, yes. Yes, they really are that stupid. Forget oil speculators, the fire at the Richmond, CA plant, special blends for the summer, forget ALL of that. It’s all because of the president. And Bush wasn’t, as I recall, castigated about the price of gas hitting $4.00. It was, on the eve of hitting that record high, THAT he was clueless that it was about to happen.
You’ve got to be kidding me. Newscast after newscast back in the day – along with liberal blogs – linked the high price of gas to Bush and Cheney to their supposed “oil cronies”…
It was all the fault of Bush when prices rose during his presidency and now its all Obama’s fault. You cannot criticize one without criticizing the other. Obama is clueless, is not a leader, and needs to go.
The answer to your question is………..YES, people are stupid.
Wolf I’m normally on the other side opinion wise but I couldn’t agree with you more on this. To believe the POTUS actually has any control over gas prices is ignorance at its best. Not matter the man in office, gas prices go much, much deeper than one man. Coming from the Romney side though, I wouldn’t expect anything less than manufactured facts.
We don’t need a scapegoat. We have Obama.
Thank you wolfndeer!!! That’s the best analogy I’ve seen!
Ridiculous. The only reasons gas prices were low in the month Obama took office was because investors were scared the economy was really tanking. If you look at the graph, you can see that it was only that low for a week or so before jumping right back up to the $3-4 a gallon it was for the six months previous in 2008.
Check it out and hit the ‘5 year’ tab. See the huge drop and how it climbed right back up really quickly?
http://www.GasBuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?city1=USA Average&city2=&city3=&crude=n&tme=60&units=us
i hope you have horse wheel drive ! rofl waffles!
As the President said during the debate, gas was 1.84 in 2009 because the economy had collapsed, which slashed demand for oil products. It had nothing to do with any energy policy.
Even if we started drilling in every conceivable location in this country tomorrow, all OPEC and other oil producing countries would do is reduce their production to keep prices stable. There might be other reasons to increase oil drilling, but it will not reduce prices.
? If we started drilling here at home, why would we care what the hell OPEC’s prices were. We wouldn’t by buying what they were selling. The US of A is sitting on more oil than all the saudi nations put together. It ABSOLUTELY would reduce prices. Duh!
Oil is a limited resource. We need a leader who understands this and searches for alternatives rather than just worrying about the present day situation. Whether its 100 years or 1,000 years from now, if we don’t invest in green energy, we’re screwed.
Well no, because OPEC controls so much oil production. They reduce Production price goes up. It does not matter how much we drill here. The oil isn’t going to stay in the USA anyways. It will go to the highest Bidder. We do not get a lot of our oil for outside countries, but OPEC, countries that have gotten together to control oil production determine how much they will produce.
Since oil is an internationally traded (and priced) commodity, and since the oil companies are not under any obligation to sell it here, they will most likely sell to the highest bidder.
The amount of oil produced has nothing to do with the price of gas at the pump, according to one study which looked at 36 years of records.
Even if we started drilling more at home, it would take a decade or more to build up the infrastructure we’d need to extract, transport and process the petroleum.
We are already producing the most oil since 1997. The oil companies are not under any obligation to sell in the US. Since we do not have a state owned oil producer and refiner, like most other countries do, they can sell to the highest bidder. Naturally the right wing would scream if part of the drilling permits required them to sell part of their oil in the US.
OPEC is not our main or even a major supplier, Canada is.
The problem at the pump is not the supply of oil, but the lack of sufficient number of processing plants, which have not been increased for nearly 30 years. That is why, when Katrina shut down refineries in the south, and the recent fire occurred in California, the price at the pump increased. Just the threat of a hurricane sends the price up.
A 36 year study showed no correlation between the amount of oil produced and the price of gas. The main driver of prices are the speculators and institutional investors, which in turn are influenced by the threat of war, or some economic problem in some other country, etc.
When Bush was in office the Democrats said it was his fault and the Republicans said there is nothing the President can do about fuel prices. Now the shoes are on the other feet.
One thing the President can do is stop the rampant inflation caused by the Federal Reserve.
Gary Johnson 2012
Yeah, and what can he do about gas pricing? Nada.
Not directly. Printing worthless money causes inflation. Inflation causes prices to rise.
When Bush decided to fill the national oil reserves to capacity, against the advice of his advisers, oil was already at a record high. His purchase at the wrong time caused an even greater (short term) price rise. So yes, he did add to the cost of gasoline, but that was an unusual case. Releasing some of the oil from the national reserve, as has been done on occasion, will reduce the price of oil for the short term only. The price of oil, and therefore refined products, is determined by the international commodities market.
For the first 9 months of 2012 the inflation rate has been an average of 2.14%. Excluding 2009 when we actually had deflation (-.4%), the inflation rate under Obama has been 2.31%.
One source I looked at states the ideal inflation rate should be between 2-3%. According to that source slight inflation is needed in order to promote economic growth. Zero inflation, or stagnation, is almost as bad as deflation.
Under GWBush the average inflation rate was 2.8%. I’m not sure what you consider “rampant inflation”, but both figures seem low to me.
Please provide a reference where the democrats blamed Bush for the high oil prices. I cannot find one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQb_4hXLx2Q
Note the cameos by former speaker Nancy Pelosi and current DNC chair Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz.
That was the top result when I typed in “Democrats blamed bush gas prices.” Went out on a limb with that one.
Perhaps a little tutelage with search engine usage might be helpful. Just sayin’.
Great! Now find “correlation between oil production and gas prices the last 36 years.”, then “Fox News edits videos”.
Also look up “US oil production history”, ” Oil company profits”, and finally, US supplements to the oil industry.”.
I can’t find them either. lol
http://www.politicususa.com/dem-radio-4-26.html
Thanks. Could you find the other ones I was looking for? I’m especially interested in “US subsidies to oil companies”. and “Oil company profits”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-542886.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-22-dems-gas-prices_x.htm
Will you watch the third party candidate debate hosted by Larry King online?Johnson will be there.
Someone might want to point out to Ms. Wardwell and the Americans for Prosperity-Maine PAC that Citgo is owned by Venezuela and the government of Hugo Chavez. The paradox of a Citgo gas station owner collaborating with a Conservative PAC makes my head hurt.
They ought to have just made out a check to Hugo Chavez, and saved people the work of pumping all that gas.
Right…I hadn’t thought of that…and I like Ol Hugo….Provided a lot of free heating oil to Mainers.
You like Hugo Chavez…. I really hope you’re not a real Rev.
GREAT point and of course not mentioned by this paper.More Hugo for your Yugo!
I have no complaints about Hugo Chavez. I just thought it was painfully ignorant for right-wing conservatives to give money to a left-wing socialist reformer. Even more ironic is the fact the Hugo Chavez is a member of OPEC, the oil cartel that DOES set oil prices. So, basically they’re blaming Obama for gas prices, by giving money to the people who DO fix gas prices. This is why American politics make my brain hurt.
“Completely nonpolitical”. Right.
Union Street Citgo can kiss my business goodbye now that they’ve taken this position.
Same here, bub….Cheers,
I’m sure it will be a huge loss.
lol
For you, a difference in politics is all it takes?
Don’t even try that.I’m sure if any business anywhere posted a discount sponsored by a liberal cause,you’d be screaming bloody murder.
Generally not. Free enterprise.
If you say so.I’m not buying it with most conservatives.
Most conservatives would only object if it were a government directed liberal discount.
Bangorian doesnt pay for gas anyway, he lives in his mothers basement still.
Ouch, I am sure that will hurt. You probably get $5.00 in gas and pay with your debit card don’t you? I am sure they will miss the $.01 they will make off of you.
Love this story!
How ironic….
Just across the street from the 14th and Union Rite Aid, the Wardwell’s were robbed of their integrity…
(not a political comment)
Why doesn’t Union Street Citgo lay off their employees and give their stocks away to make them worthless, as happened with their George Bush as president in 2008? That is why gas was $1.84. The country was losing 800,000 jobs a month. The stock market plummeted as we had two unpaid for wars.
Those tax cuts for the rich really helped in 2008. Union Street Citgo will now lose half their customers who they have now disenfranchised. At least they will have the feeling of the economy of 2008, which after all is what they wanted. Another one bites the dust! :}
Who have they disenfranchised?
Disenfranchise: To deprive (someone) of the right to vote.
Honestly, you guys are getting more and more entertaining as you go.
Disenfranchise: to Marginalize – treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral
Honestly, you guys are getting more and more entertaining as you go. :}
Uh, no. The offer was made to all drivers, regardless of political affiliation. That you take offense to the offer is not on Union Street Citgo, Bub, that’s on you.
Are you really that petty? Apparently, you are.
It’s not at all petty to decide where you want your money to be spent and by extension to fund what the business owner does.They couldn’t have made the offer to a select group so they had to make it available to anyone.
Thus, there’s no disenfranchisement going on. Thank you for making my point.
Otherwise, you’re looking to ultimately limit this private citizen’s free speech.
“The gas price rollback was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity-Maine, a
chapter of the conservative political action committee composed of
activists.”
The fact that you can cut and paste – although impressive – does not establish your point.
Their offer was made available to all customers regardless of political affiliation. That you choose to take offense to it reveals how regressive and close-minded you are.
The fact that you only took one sentence from the original post to cry about, then became stumped in your attempt to refute it – does not support your point. Your about as wimpy as Willard.
Why doesn’t Union Street Citgo lay off their employees and give their
stocks away to make them worthless, as happened with their George Bush
as president in 2008? That is why gas was $1.84. The country was
losing 800,000 jobs a month. The stock market plummeted as we had two
unpaid for wars.
Those tax cuts for the rich really helped in 2008.
Come on Jake, really?????
99% of people could careless if this station swings left or right…..
I wish you were wrong but the fewer people that get involved make it easier for Weston and AFP to steal everything.People MUST be vigilant.
Read about this being done in another state. I hope people buy and vote for Obama. Otherwise you can consider your vote bought and paid for.
Just out of curiosity, when Democrats outspend Republicans is your vote still bought?
Careful, Cheese…logic makes their heads explode. You may even be accused of disenfranchisement…
Democrats are giving away gas? If you are talking about the ads…. I mute every one of them. Anyone who votes on the basis of ads needs to have their head examined no matter who they are voting for.
The people that get their free Obama phone vote on the basis of ads…….Oh my..
Let’s see. Didn’t I just read somewhere that the phone program was a Bush initiative? Need me to check that for you?
Actually I think it was before Bush..LOL
Thanks for that. I went looking and you are right. It started under Reagan. Here is a great description of the program, which OMG come to find out is NOT FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS . Imagine what you can learn when you look for the truth! http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp
C’Mon, people!!! Non-blamers are so, so, so sick of this trash. Can’t we get over this “You started it!” ,”No, YOU started it!” juvenile mentality?
Where are the solutions? Are any of us capable of raising the standards we expect of our governmental representatives? Specifically, what do we want them to do?
Bad mouthe and trash talk all you want…We’ll get what we deserve for another four years one way or the other. In my opinion they can start by changing every stinking law that prevents American businesses from providing Americans with American owned energy. Why is this not happening right now?
I agree with you completely. Lies and distortions, however, need to be addressed. Not left to stand. Fact checked. When we tell our representatives that we want, in this age of instant fact checking, honesty, integrity, and ideas (not necessarily solutions) that will move us forward maybe we will get some of that. I call out every politician I count on to do the right thing whenever I find regression to lies and distortions. I do have one question for you. Have you thought deeply about your suggestion to get rid of every law that prevents energy production? Does that include the safety and environmental laws and regulations? What American businesses are you talking about? Not the Exxon-Mobils of the world because a recent CEO is reported as saying “I am not a US company, and I don’t make decisions based on what is good for the US.” But Exxon-Mobil is majority owner of the Maine pipeline that is slated to carry tar sands oil through our state. http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=5004 It is all very complicated. I do not think there are any simple answers. But I do know one thing. The role of government is to protect us from those who would do us harm. Even those within our own borders.
Before this volley continues any further it is only fair that you announce whether you agree that all law is just and fair or whether you believe that some laws are not.
Imperfect people will always design imperfect laws. The minute you start using words like ‘all’ you remove the conversation from reality. Many laws have been repealed for the very reasons you state. But I think the conversation is worthwhile. I have learned things because of comments, had to go looking for information, and do fact check myself… but I just learned I need to do that more.
I agree that the word “all” “removes the conversation from reality” such as in the usage of “Not the Exxon-Mobils of the world” ( and backed up by reference to a singular representative company). That said, the crux of the argument we address should be discussed on it’s own merits.
The question I would like to raise is “When laws become either counterproductive by evidence of harm to the American people do you agree “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it” as stated in the Declaration of Independence?
So what American company is hurt by current laws? But of course, I think it is the right of the people to abolish laws. Love our people’s veto. Hope to see a constitutional amendment that takes personhood away from corporations. We must protest. It is our obligation as citizens to protect our democracy. No matter which side of the argument we support. Did you testify at the Voter ID hearings?
This volley cannot continue as the breach is too wide.
However, just out of curiosity, do you value your rights and freedom more than you value the role of government or do you value the government more than your rights and freedoms? Do you think they’re one in the same or do you see them as separate realities?
I did go and check it thanks to another commentor and lo and behold it began under Reagan and is NOT PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYER (http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp) . That should take the wind out of some sails.
As we used to say about my sister’s dog, “Growl, but take the cookie.”
“It is completely nonpolitical,”
Right when I read the rest of the article and the discussion about who was behind it, the mention of gas being this price when Obama took office, etc makes me think otherwise
Non-political? And they have good deals on a bridge and swamp for you too.
Dumb move. You just lost a regular customer and everyone I can tell about this. There is nothing nonpolitical about the statement you just made by selling gas at this price which attempts to emphasis the mistakenly presumed failings of our President.
I highly suggest people who purchased gas today educate themselves about the historical price of gas under the Bush administration, the facts regarding this low price (only lasted about a week after skyrocketing for months) and how gas prices are actually controlled.
Cheap, misleading, uninformed shot and I am ashamed to have given you business in the past.
Read any book by Daniel Yergin about oil geopolitics.Amazing how things really were and are manipulated.I suggest “The Prize”
Start a petition on moveon.org.Maybe that wil help.
I do believe that Union St Citgo used the opportunity to do just as stated, save their customers some cash on gas……I don’t ever stop here or anyplace else around Bangor as a consumer thinking is this a Republican or Democratic business….I shop for deals and the costs of product influences when and where I spend my money….I appreciated the chance to save a couple of bucks and calling for a boycott of this business is ludicrous…..
The paper misquoted her. It wasn’t political on her part. She had a choice to get free publicity and nearly 150 fill-up customers for free. Why should she turn that down? Dumb knee-jerk reaction from a regular customer.
Your loss Babe….. They wont miss the few cents they make off your gas sale and the doughnut that you stuff in your face.
You folks really need to practice this. Repeat after me….. “President Romney”
is not going to get our gas/oil back to where it needs to be!
lolol
You hit the nail on the head.. Going to be a whole bunch of disappointed liberals come Nov 4th…
Since that’s a Sunday-nice try.Or are you part of the R gang that sent out fliers in D districts in MI that “accidentally” had the wrong registration dates?COUGH.No worries here.I’ll be voting on Nov 6th!
Why, what’s on November 4th. Romney going to concede 2 days before the election?
I’ve bought all my gasoline…tuneups…inspections, etc., there for 15 years…No more…I’ll find another gas station. You can’t blame Obama for gas prices….How about Bush?….Before Bush and Cheney declared Saddam to be evil Saddam had promised to sell all the gas/oil the US wanted for $29 a barrel. Bush and Cheney figured they could get if for free by invading and stealing the oil….Remember even Tom Brokaw said the war would be over in a week. So far it’s cost us $2 trillion and counting…….2.2 million dollars a minute for Iraq and Afghanistan….
i have never bought gas there, but i think i’m going to start
I’m with you.I wouldn’t mind if the owner had said it WAS a political stunt.Get your name and pic in the paper and deal with the consequences.To say it was nonpolitical is the worst kind of lie.Did they pay taxes on the regular retail price?
So it is wrong for people to have an opinion opposite of yours? Name a gas station owner that is not conservative. There are not many. You know why? Liberals take their money and give it to people who do nothing all day. Just because people are less-ambitious (or lazy, however you like to term it) than others does not give them the right to leach off the ones that earn it for a living.
how bout we just get gas back to $1.80 a gallon
That will only happen if we have another world wide depression like 1929.
With China and India, among others, becoming major industrial economies, they will need an energy supply. Even though China is working very hard to build sustainable alternative energy methods, for now they must buy oil on the world market, which will keep the demand and price high. As their industry expands it will only get worse. If, on the other hand, their economies were to contract to the point they reduced their need for oil, it would mean another recession or depression, which would effect the entire world economy.
and we were paying triple less than that when bush was in office thank you!!
if not triple less, maybe double less, come on all, the gas/oil started climbing while bush was in office, and who made money from it, and who is still making money from it! u all are not stupid, think harder gas/oil was climbing thru bush’s presidency, not during clintons, we the people need to wake up and realize !
them dang oil companies are hurting, LOL!
omg, they are hurting
they lost 2 cents per gallon, but made billions
come on people
see the light
doesnt matter who you vote for
you might as well vote for big bird, and let elmo take the heat
How much fuel was wasted from all the vehicles idling while they waited?
And the greenhouse gases that were released into the air. I think the temperature in Bangor may have risen by .000001 degree Celsius.
Oh, the humanity!
So you don’t have an answer to my question, correct?
3 gallons
You know what they say…Ask a stupid question…
An i d 10 t such as yourself won’t give an answer but instead reply with a useless comment?
Anywhere from 0.2 gal to 0.7 gal per 30 min. So even if this vehicles sat idling for an hour (which I highly doubt – anyone with half a brain would shut the engine off) this was a huge savings for everyone. So whats your point??
That’s a lot less than the hot air generated by Carol Weston.Calling Felix Baumgartner.
I kept shutting off my car, and so did those around me, while waiting for a short time….people wait longer between stop lights while driving home from work each afternoon while their cars idle so your point is, well, pointless…..
The comments being posted on here by the whinning liberials are giving me some of the best comic relief I have had in some time >L.O.L ! many times !
Just keep repeating,It’s all Bush’s fault.
I will now drive out of my way to go get gas from these guys every time. Way to go. Great initiative. Union St. Citgo for me from now on. I love reading all the expert opinions from the posters. They really do make me laugh. I can see know why Obama gets your vote.
Hugo Chavez and his socialist government will thank you.
Who says the right wing nuts can’t work with the left wing?
Most people could careless if the gas station swings to the left or the right when buying gas.
You have said the most intelligent comment (not surprising) in regards to the whole issue….people are struggling to buy anything and everything today just to put food on the table and if saving some change here and there can happen then I’m all in….as long as it doesn’t involve Zumba lessons….
I have a plethora or knowledge……I may take up Zumba..
So true…..I love the ones that voted for Obama just because he was black, it was the cool thing to do at the time…….Hillary would of done a better job, too bad she wasnt black because she would be President right now.
And you would’ve hated her too.There is nobody in America who has taken more garbage from conservatives and who has done more for America and continues to do so.
I think Hillary is doing a very good job…….
Me too. We know she is an American that values (most of) the Constitution. That’s a plus right there.
Ms. Clinton falling on her sword re: Libya to protect this President speaks volumes….she’s a better President than, oh I mean better leader than the President himself….
You know it…
As the kids say …Fo Sho..
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Here is an idea for another great gimmic and a way to make a political statement. Give everyone a raise for one week. Pay them what they should be making in 2012 America, instead of what they are actually earning. Then they could see how much easier it would be to afford gas, groceries, taxes, and mortgages. This could be funded by the top 1%, you know, the ones who have been hoarding everyone’s raises for the last 20 years.
Trying to buy votes? How Republican of them.
Got to love everyone saying the President doesn’t control energy prices and then in the next sentence point out the cost of gas(after Katrina) when Bush was president . TF
The price of gas as a result of Katrina was due to refineries being shut down. The criticism of Bush was a result of the poor response to the plight of the victims of Katrina.
Totally hypocritical right wing crud as usual. Gas was down at the height of the BUSH RECESSION because demand was down. Where was this promotion when gas was a 4 bucks under BUSH???
The right wingers dance for joy over the wonders of the free market, love Wall Street speculation, and want to do everything possible to help their oil company CEO’s get more tax cuts and buy more mansions, but then they whine about the price of gas which is controlled by the market including speculation and the high prices help their CEO corporate masters. WHAT ARE YOU RIGHT WINGERS WHINING ABOUT? BE CONSISTENT AND DANCE FOR JOY AT THESE HIGH GAS PRICES AS YOU DANCE FOR JOY WHENEVER AN OIL COMPANY CEO MILLIONAIRE GETS ANOTHER TAX CUT. Right wingers: ULTRA HYPOCRITES and PHONIES as usual.
6 months before Obama was elected gas was over $4. It had dropped so low because Bush was driving us to a depression, which Obama pulled us out of. Republicans thrive on obfuscation and ignorance.
The economy must be booming now… Gas is almost 4 dollars a gallon.. Cant wait until it hits 5 bucks a gallon…5 bucks a gallon = prosperity. Go Obama go…
I do not know where anyone bought gas at $1.84 in 2008 I just dug out my charge slip for 2008 and we paid anywhere from $3.85 to $4.05 for reg gas and I think Bush was the president then and he was an oil man.
I cant remember that far back……LOL
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
6 months before Obama took office gas was over $4 because Bush was dragging us into a depression, which Obama pulled us out of. Republicans thrive on ignorance and obfuscation.
Wow, this gas station just upset a bunch of lefties, tissue time…LOL
I’d only break out my tissues if I waited in line and then was customer #151.
LOL!! Very good point….
I would too….
Thank-you AFP-Maine for helping me save a few bucks…..I wish this President would have the same mindset to be helping consumers keep a little more money in the ole’ wallet……too bad I was driving the Focus instead of the F-150…..would have received a larger break, maybe next time…..thank-you Union St. Citgo….
Actually the Making Work Pay Credit in 2009 and 2010 and Payroll Tax Holiday in 2011 and 2012 were designed to do that.
The president argued in the last debate that gas prices are high now because the economy is so robust. This is a perfect example of his incompetence. He also stated that he doesn’t know what he invests in. Is is any wonder he doesn’t understand how to create a job?
Greed of the gas companies nudged us over the cliff. Bush got us to the edge.
I think you’d better research how much money the government makes per gallon of gas sold compared to how much the oil companies make per gallon of gas.
Sad isnt it…..To get gas prices back down we will have to go back into a recession….I cant believe how robust the economy is right now….LOL
I am sick of the lies and the huge profits made by the petroleum industry! At $2.00 a gallon they would still be making a big and more realistic profit! The trouble is our Government officials are making a killing on petroleum and don’t want the price down to where it should be. The wealthy and there greed have ruined this country! This is the truth and there lies can’t change it!
Were they also selling shares of stock at the prices of that inauguration date in 2009? That was during the market and economy crash of the Bush crisis, and the stock market has risen about as much since that date as the price of gasoline and heating oil . . .
I’m not willing to trade another Great Recession for lower gas prices.
so let me get this straight…they’re trying to keep people from voting all over the country and now they’re buying votes? (BTW, I posted this on the Americans For Prosperity site & they wouldn’t post it)
Interesting name for the group–what they want is THEIR prosperity, the heck with the rest of us. If they have to lie, cheat and STEAL to win that’s ok with them.
Well I guess I will reiterate what i ACTUALLY told the reporter from the BDN instead of what she chose to write. For OUR STATION, this promotion was completely non-political. Obviously, the group that provided the funding had a political agenda but in the end, their sponsering of this saved 150 people some of their hard earned money and that was our goal!! We do not support either political party. I know there are some that won’t believe this, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I just wanted to state what my thoughts were going into this. If any organization approached us and wanted to do something like this that could save our community a big chunk of money like this, we would have done it. Maybe some don’t realize this, but saving $30 on a fill up was HUGE for a lot of people and we were very happy to help make this happen for them!! So I apologize for those who feel that our vote was “bought”, or that we were “robbed of our integrity”, but I feel good about what we did and for those that we could help out!
Thank-you!!
Great job.
Thanks for posting; it does clarify the article. Union Citgo is a great local business, and I wish them well.
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I quit a crappy second part-time job in 2007 because gas was well over $3.50 a gallon so I was burning more getting there than I was making.
A sitting president (either party) has very little to do with gas prices. He just makes a convenient ‘target’ for people who like to rant about what they can’t control. I say that about both Obama and Bush.
This whole exercise was pointless Union St. Citgo, but oh well…it’s your dime. I hope this “nonpartisan” (oh hardy har har) group helped you pay for your $ loss or at you can at least write it off on your taxes.
funded by a conservative political action committee
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This is a great thing that they did yesterday. I wish that they would do this in my town too!
Bottom line is that it doesn’t matter if it was political or non- it’s their business and they can do what they want. I would have liked to have been driving by!
I bought gas at $4.29 a gal. when Bush was Prez….So which is it Rs? When gas drops, you claim Obama had nothing to do with it. When gas goes up, you claim it’s all his fault.
In any event, lemme fill ya in on a little secret: If you’re a millionaire, vote for the Dem. If you’re a billionaire, vote for the Rep. If you’re neither, then either stay home or vote for someone else.
The botton line here is …MIDDLE CLASS WORKING PEOPLE are falling behind..Don’t matter what the price of gas was 4 years ago…I know what I am paying today…
“I’m stoked,” said Martinez, who waited about an hour to fill up. “I would have waited five hours.”
LMAO!
-Ok , wait 5 hours to save $30?That’s cost effective!
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I hope the Liberals have settled down after this situation…..
Getting wound up over cheap gas isnt good.
Hmm…prices rose under Bush it was HIS fault. Prices rise under Obama and it is BUSH’S fault. When prices rose under Bush who controlled the house and senate? Oh…dems did? When prices rose under Obama who controlled the house and senate AND the presidency? Oh..the dems? Yep, our community organizer snowed all his sheep and claimed HE KNEW HOW and WOULD make all things hunky dory again. Now the sheep are saying not fair, he has done wonders. He couldn’t socialize enough in just 4 years and he just needs to find new things to blame his incompetency on. The sheep HOPE he gets 4 more years so he can CHANGE the amount they get for food stamps, get their tuition paid for, get free contraceptives, free obamaphones, free obamastash, get free homes, and NEVER have to work. The rich will pay for it all. Thankfully many of the ex-sheep have woken up and know they were snowed, caught up with the media hype and build up over our new savior. The teleprompter pres is the most out of his league pres even besting Jimmy Carter. What is even more amazing, sheep still bleat and I think it is because they can’t admit they made a very big mistake.
I love how any time the conservatives do something to prove a point it’s politicizing, as many of you have said here, yet our fearless leaders and his followers in the media are walking around talking about binders and Big Bird.
When bush was in Office I paid 2 dollars less per gallon. which put an additional 120 dollars a month in my bank account. What can you pay for with 120 a month? cell phone for a family of three, best cable and internet. auto insurance for a family of 3.
Imagine the Electric company saying hey we are going to charge you $120.00 more per month, you would be screaming.
First of all,I said nothing involving disenfranchisement.Second,he/she can say anything he/she likes-but I have the right to spend my money as I wish as well.If there are two coffee shops serving the same brand in your town and one has an Obama sign,one a Romney,where are you buying coffee?I’m pretty sure I can guess.
Fair enough.Why did they come to your station out of the many they could’ve chosen?
If the Moonbats of Maine Society keep repeating the lies coming out of the whitehouse does that make them true. It was funny until it starting hurting people.
The Wall Street journal and Investors Business Daily are business news sources for investors and corporate types, not exactly what are called liberal. The Washington Post is a very conservative newspaper.
Either you have never heard of them, or you are talking through your hat.
The oil cartels contol prices. If you drilled all over the country and the oil cartel reduces production the price per gallon stays high. It is a global market. Anyone who thinks Romney will fill their tank at a loss after the election is dreaming. When an american oil company drilling here can get more by selling oil to China you won’t have any of it. No president controls global supply and demand. Get real
How racist! The feds should investigate this one as a hate crime.
“funded by a conservative political action committee…” and the owners say it is not political? Aw, c’mon —