Bachmann: If elected, gas prices would fall to less than $2 per gallon

[Faygo Kid]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) vowed Tuesday that, in her presidency, gasoline prices would fall back to less than $2 per gallon.

Bachmann, speaking to a town-hall meeting in South Carolina, said she would pursue energy policies that send pump prices down to levels not seen since early 2009, at the thick of the U.S. recession. 



“Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 per gallon again,” she said in Greenville. “That will happen.”

Bachmann and other GOP White House contenders are calling for much more aggressive U.S. oil drilling — her campaign backs drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and wider offshore production, alleging President Obama has placed too many restrictions on development. . .



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"Yes, and if you elect me, I will also spin straw into gold and we'll all be rich!!"

[valerief]

1. Right, like Americans can afford cars. nt

[NHDemProg]

65. $2/gal gas...

chicken in every pot. and she'll deep throat corn dogs every other Sunday on national television.

Well, they'll LOOK kinda like corn dogs, anyway.

[livetohike]

2. and a "Chicken in every pot!". She's unhinged with these

campaign promises.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. -->

[Joe Bacon]

59. MY EYES!!!!!!

PLEASE! ONCE IS ENOUGH!!!!!!

[meegbear]

4. And if it doesn't in 100 days, will you immediately resign?

Not bloody likely.

[TwilightGardener]

5. So...would that be considered a form of bribery? You vote for me, I'll quote you

a price on gas!

[Uben]

6. Then why, as an American senator are you not pushing it now?

Does she only want cheap gas if she's elected? That's what it sounds like to me.

(insert middle finger image here)

[Faygo Kid]

12. Thank goodness she's not a senator.

I do wonder about the sanity of her Minnesota congressional district.

Not a place I would live, for sure.

[Divine Discontent]

16. you got that right. thank goodness indeed. she should never have more power than she already has.

yeah, that district is not someplace I would be happy to live in. ha. I feel sorry for the liberals up there. I'm still shaking my head over ricky scott being our governor by the skin of his teeth, oh wait, they stole it. I keep forgetting that GOP has miraculous ways of winning.

[onehandle]

7. "Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it anymore." nt

[RedEarth]

8. Because the entire world would be in a depression due to your policies?

[Blue Owl]

9. You do know what they put in corn dogs these days

n/t

[formercia]

64. I know what I would put in the Corn Dog

...if I knew she was going to put it in her Mouth.

[Stand and Fight]

10. You guys can belittle what she said all you want -- at your own peril.

I'm telling you now -- this campaign "promise" while logistically improbable to those in the know is going to appeal a whole hell of a lot to many people. If you think it won't, you're fooling yourselves. I'd caution that you focus on how to beat her rather than how to belittle her.

[TwilightGardener]

15. Whenever someone comes on DU to tell me NOT to belittle a Republican, I wonder what they

think this website is for.

[Lucinda]

22. Really?

That's what DU is to you?

[TwilightGardener]

25. Of course. I'm certainly not here to bash Democrats.

Edit to add: Do you see the graphic at the very top of your screen? Is it possible that making fun of Republicans is OK here? Ya think?

[socialindependocrat]

19. She's already beaten herself- Laugh and let it go... n/t

[TomClash]

21. Well said

We joke and mock and guffaw - next thing you know, the Iron Lady is in the WH.

[BobbyBoring]

35. That's true

Because there are too many stupid people in this country that would believe it~

[mac56]

51. "I'd caution that you focus on how to beat her rather than how to belittle her."

Part of "how to beat her" is to mock her when she's mockable, which is just about every day. Ridicule is a weapon they can't counter.

[Psephos]

56. Good point, but also, missing the point.

Mocking a fringer like Bachmann is good politics, if it actually discredits her in the eyes of those who might otherwise vote for her. But it's chump politics if it causes progs to not take her seriously, and therefore, not be vigorous in learning how to defeat her.

I see way too much of the latter around the prog blogs. Case in point: November 2010.

[mac56]

69. Point taken.

:thumbsup:

[snooper2]

71. that ignorant pos isn't going to get the nom., ignorant dickboy Perry will

So Bachmann is there purely for our entertainment...


:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

11. If I'm elected president I'll put a soda machine in the cafeteria

:beer:

[sinkingfeeling]

13. I bet she's gonna arm wrestle all those OPEC guys to get cheaper oil.

[pam4water]

14. Bawahahahaha

[rrneck]

17. Lopks like she cam jerk off a corn dog too. nt

[Journeyman]

18. Great. Back to 8th Grade Election Tactics. "Vote for me, free ice cream for all!". . .

"And no homework!"

[Myrina]

20. ... yes because a dollar will be worth a wheelbarrow full of any other currency ...

... just like Russia and Germany in the early part of the 20'th century.

[Plucketeer]

23. Here's your fruitcake, sir!

Richly imbued with light sweet crude! :nuke:

[caraher]

24. She's right

Soon enough after a Bachmann win, jobs will disappear, demand will plummet and voila! - $2/gallon!

[bongbong]

26. Crazy Eyes

Your illustration of Insane Blechmann is pretty good, but you gotta add her usual "Scary Eyes" to get the most realistic picture.

[drm604]

27. How? By price controls?

Is she going to rein in the speculators somehow?

Does she know anything about economics?

[Roy Rolling]

28. I agree with caraher (above), Bachman's right, you know . . .

If she gets elected the stock market will collapse---businesspeople know what someone like her will mean for the American economy. When the stock market collapses, oil prices usually shrink as a response to the potential of decreased demand. When nobody works, nobody buys gas and the price goes down.

So, she is right---but doesn't have a clue why gas prices would collapse. It isn't a vote of confidence in her policies, it's running for cover in fear of her policies.

[russspeakeasy]

29. She meant $20....give her some slack...

[cpwm17]

30. I wonder if she believes that

Of course any new oil the US could drill would only increase world supply very little. Oil prices wouldn't change much.

[KeepItReal]

31. She's gonna "jawbone OPEC" like Bush & Co did to lower gas prices...

Oh wait... Bush' jawboning only drove oil and gas prices *up*

Much to the delight of OPEC and especially Russia.

[FarLeftFist]

32. Uh, yeah, the free-market decides the price. We don't have a supply problem Mrs. Shit-For-Brains.

Only her followers would believe this BS.

[Lucky Luciano]

33. If elected, she will decree that the new gallon is half the old gallon. nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

34. Bush made a similar promise

That he would use his influence on the Saudi's to increase production and lower prices.

You really had to be an idiot to expect anything but the exact opposite.

[truthisfreedom]

36. There's only two ways to do that, in reality.

1] Change the infrastructure quickly by passing laws that make only electric cars legal (new builds).

2] Run the economy off a cliff so everyone is out of a job and demand for gas drops to a trickle.

I think she's only capable of one of those methods.

[Fearless]

37. Like magic? LOL. Idiots. End our wars and it'll come down.

Like it always does after we end Mideast conflicts.

[Roland99]

38. yeah...drilling in ANWR and other areas will really help. What a MORON!!

It's not the amount of oil on the market. There's plenty. It's the speculation and fear factor and pure, unmitigated greed!!

[Roland99]

39. But I guess she'll fund the rebuilding of refineries to handle the heavier crude instead??

what a fucking MORON!!!

[Yavin4]

40. Even if They Found A Tremendous Amount of Oil in ANWAR

the price of gas would still be affected by world prices, not just the U.S. Tha oil would not be limited to only the U.S. market.

[DavidDvorkin]

41. She meant to say that the dollar would drop to 2000 to the euro.

[Autumn Colors]

42. So she believes in gov't price controls?

I'm sure her tea party followers will love that....

[LiberalEsto]

43. And the Tooth Fairy will bring everyone a nice job

that pays $100,000 a year.

[tabasco]

44. Yeeeeeehah!

Bring back the Hummer!!!

[sakabatou]

45. O RLY?

[miyazaki]

46. Actually good economists and scientists have been pushing

for Obama to achieve just this with our own massive reserves of natural gas.
It certainly isn't Bachmann's idea. Utilizing our own fuel resources would
pulverize our dependency on foreign oil, and drop the price of existing gas prices
probably to half.

[NickB79]

58. Too bad we don't have the nat. gas reserves to make that happen

The shale gas reserves everyone's been hyping have been overblown by 100%: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/fracking-industry-reserves-overstated-at-least-100-percent.php

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

62. Say what?

let's just wean ourselves from oil. That's the long term solution..............

[sinkingfeeling]

63. Well, here's to fracking under your house!

[kiranon]

47. And horses will fly. n/t

[Demeter]

48. The Right Wing Longs for the Good Old Days--Before W

This proclamation explains the weird radio ad I heard in the GOP hinterland of Michigan Sunday:

'...Keep your oil heat, and you'll be glad when the present craziness dies down....'

These people really believe that 1) the changes are under governmental control 2) they are going to be able to enforce it on the multinational corporations 3) the laws of supply, demand and price manipulation can be repealed.

They are neaking fruts.

[primavera]

49. That would certainly encourage people to drive gas guzzlers

Personally, I'd rather see the price of gas go up to encourage people to drive low emission, fuel efficient vehicles like the rest of the world; hitting them in their pocket book seems to be the only way to pry Americans from the Sherman tanks they insist they need to get to the grocery store in.

[Obamanaut]

50. . nt

[applegrove]

52. This is dictator sh**. These are the types of lies dictators tell when they run in

"elections" that are rigged.

[nyy1998]

53. Hahahahahahhaha, that's great,t hanks for the laugh Bachmann nt

[Zorra]

54. Craaazeee, over the rainbow, she's craaazeee....bars in the window...nt

[pinniped]

55. In early 2009 the gas prices were under $2/gallon?

No one told me about it.

[Douglas Carpenter]

57. a total economic depression could possibly do that

[jpak]

60. U.S. oil production ROSE under Obama - prices did not fall, Corn Dogger Fail

yup

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

61. It's plausible.

But I think the cost of most things would drop in the "Mad Max" like future that awaits us if this imbecile were to get elected.

[KamaAina]

66. You know what? She's right.

She'd fsck up the economy to the point where there would be no more demand for gasoline, or anything else except cat food. Hence, sub-$2/gallon gas. :eyes:

[newspeak]

67. if scary woman is elected, I'm leaving the country

How does she figure more aggressive oil drilling is going to benefit the american people, when global corporations are doing the drilling and they put it on a global market? Does she think we're all clueless? The only way that works if an agreement is made with the oil companies where the US gets a percentage drilled. And I'm thinking she's too much of a deregulating, ayn randian corporate butt kisser for that to happen.

[alarimer]

68. You are an idiot Bachmann

You don't understand simple economics. Gas prices are where they are in part because oil is getting scarcer and will only continue to do so. Gasoline will never be $2 again. Never.

[totodeinhere]

70. She is right but not for the reasons she gives. Remember right after the big financial meltdown in

2008 when gas prices fell below $2 in many parts of the country? That's because the economy was in such bad shape that demand for petroleum products nosedived and caused prices to plummet. If Bachmann gets elected, God forbid, we will have such a deep depression that it will make 2008 look like a picnic. And gas probably will be below $2 but it won't matter because our economy will have been destroyed.

[robertpaulsen]

72. Of course they will. The same way they fell to under $2 with Dubya.

She'll completely destroy demand by collapsing the economy.

Average price of gallon of gas in http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/07/gas-prices-1.html">July 2008: $4.11

Average price of gallon of gas in http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/12/gas-prices-4.html">December 2008: $1.61

Gee, what happened in between July and December of that year that made the price drop so much?! And Bachmann http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news/economy/bachmann_gas_prices/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2">waxes rhapsodic about how low the price of gas was when Bush left office like getting there was such a boon?!

Yes, we can certainly look forward to gas prices under $2 a gallon under a Bachmann administration. Good luck finding a job to drive to.

[threeinamerica]

73. Bachmann

Its always the same promises, promises these wanna be Presidents hit a wall as soon as they get to the white house and then
they realize that the president has no power only the house and congress do. so to this I say... What I hear when she Buchmann
speaks is..........."Buck...Buck.......Buck...Buck like a chicken.