Asked Directly About Gas Prices, GOP Candidates Don’t Have Answers

[SunsetDreams]

Yesterday, President Barack Obama laid out the steps the White House is taking on rising gas costs, telling the Florida crowd that “drill everywhere” rhetoric is a “bumper sticker,” not a solution, but that he’s working to reduce oil demand and rein in Wall Street speculators.

When CNN moderator John King directly asked the Republican candidates for their own plans on gas prices at Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum completely sidestepped the question by attacking Obama’s foreign policy in Iran. Newt Gingrich, who released a half-hour ad targeting energy prices earlier that day, offered nothing beyond his one-sentence talking point on gas prices:

Well, the first thing I’d do, across the board for the entire region, is create a very dramatic American energy policy of opening up federal lands and opening up offshore drilling, replacing the EPA.

Gingrich, who earlier in the debate said that he could lower gas prices to $2.50, did not explain how any of these policies would lower prices to his promised benchmark, a price economists agree is impossible to achieve. Gingrich omitted that the U.S. became a net fuel exporter for the first time in 60 years as domestic production hit an 8-year high in 2011. Evidence shows that speculators drive up gas prices. Although Gingrich released a half-hour ad focused on gas prices and energy policy ahead of Wednesday night’s debate, given a chance to defend it, he couldn’t even elaborate beyond the expected conservative talking point.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/24/431388/asked-directly-about-gas-prices-gop-candidates-dont-have-answers/

All you hear is "Obama bad...Obama bad....Obama bad...blah blah" with no counter solutions.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Well, since the problem has nothing to do with supply or demand, the 'hands off

free enterprise' guys ain't got much.

[Plucketeer]

2. These dweebs are...

showing us the ONLY things in their collective quivvers are false fears. That's it! That's ALL they've got.

[spanone]

3. i guess when you're an asshole, it's easy to spew shit