Raw Story: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday said that there was “no question” President Barack Obama had a plan to raise gas prices when he took office.
“When he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up,” the candidate told Fox News host Bret Baier.Except that Obama never said such a thing. So the first thing said in this conversation should be that Mitt Romney is a pathological liar and can't be trusted. After that we can talk about the fact that when Bill Clinton left office the price of oil was 18.00/barrel. Midway through the following Republicans administration it was at 150.00/barrel. The Republican party is the party of big oil. They're the party of the deregulation that's allowed the speculators to run up the price of oil. They're against clean energy. They're responsible for the war in Iraq and the talk of war with Iran. They're more responsible than anything or anybody else for the high price of gas.
Update: It turns out that politician running for president that said the thing that most closely resembles what Romney's lie tries to attribute to the president is Romney himself:
“I don’t think that now is the time, and I’m not sure there will be the right time, for us to encourage the use of more gasoline. I’m very much in favor of people recognizing that these high gasoline prices are probably here to stay.” [Quincy Patriot Ledger, 5/06]
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