{"id":12587,"date":"2012-10-06T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2012-10-06T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:10:39","slug":"do-you-want-mitt-romney-to-lower-gasoline-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/10\/06\/do-you-want-mitt-romney-to-lower-gasoline-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want Mitt Romney To Lower Gasoline Prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Presidential debate, Mitt Romney claimed that gasoline prices today are twice what they were when President Obama took office.<\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"Gasline price history\" href=\"http:\/\/gasbuddy.com\/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>gasbuddy.com<\/strong><\/a> I was able to learn the truth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gasbuddy.com\/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5 year history of gasoline prices\" src=\"http:\/\/66.70.86.64\/ChartServer\/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&amp;Crude=f&amp;Period=60&amp;Areas=USA%20Average,,&amp;Unit=US%20$\/G\" alt=\"Graph of 5 year history of gasoline prices\" width=\"670\" height=\"325\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This graph shows that the gasoline prices dropped precipitously from $4.12 a gallon in August 2008 to $1.61 in December 2008.\u00a0 If you remember, the economy was in free fall at that time.\u00a0 People were cutting back on their gasoline purchases so that they could afford to eat.\u00a0 Is this how you want Mitt Romney to lower the gasoline prices?\u00a0 Or would you be willing to trade gasoline at $3.87 as opposed to $4.12 before the economic crash in order to have even a slow economic recovery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Presidential debate, Mitt Romney claimed that gasoline prices today are twice what they were when President Obama took office. From gasbuddy.com I was able to learn the truth. This graph shows that the gasoline prices dropped precipitously from $4.12 a gallon in August 2008 to $1.61 in December 2008.\u00a0 If you remember, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12589,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}