Bush: I’m ‘focused’ on gas prices but unaware of $4 gas.
Bush: I’m ‘focused’ on gas prices but unaware of $4 gas.
During his press conference today, a reporter asked President Bush what his “advice” would be to the “average American” who is “facing the prospect of $4 a gallon gasoline.” Bush replied, “That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard that.” Yet a few minutes later, Bush wouldn’t answer a question regarding donations for his presidential library because, he claimed, “I, frankly, have been focused elsewhere, like on gasoline prices.” Watch it:
Transcript:
QUESTION: What’s your advice to the average American who is hurting now — facing the prospect of $4 a gallon gasoline, a lot of people facing –
BUSH: Wait a minute. What did you just say? You’re predicting $4 a gallon gas?
QUESTION: A number of analysts are predicting $4 a gallon gasoline this spring when they reformulate.
BUSH: That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.
QUESTION: Yes, sir. [...]
QUESTION: Any restrictions on who can give? Will you take foreign money for this?
BUSH: Yes, probably take some foreign money, but don’t know yet. We just haven’t — we just announced the deal. And I, frankly, have been focused elsewhere, like on gasoline prices and, you know, my trip to Africa, and haven’t seen the fund-raising strategy yet.
And so, the answer to your question is really I can’t answer your questions well.
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yeah, focused on how he can help his oil buddies get it up to $5.00 a gallon…. it used to cost me $15.00 to fill up my 95 saturn…. now it costs over $40.00.
impeach this assclown already.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:50 amAt least Reagan’s Alzheimers didn’t overtly manifest itself while he was still in office.
To paraphrase Dean Vernon Wormer: “Lying, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
February 28th, 2008 at 11:52 amSometimes I feel sorry for him…
February 28th, 2008 at 11:52 amwas he drunk, AGAIN?!?
February 28th, 2008 at 11:53 amworst. president. ever.
with a library.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:54 amFor the first time in year’s I fell asleep with the TV on and woke up late to this dirt bag’s speech….Damn, I have a headache and not likely to loose it till Jan. 2009……His speech was one of the most mangled and obscene yet….If he isn’t on drug’s he is completely insane, maybe both….Blessings all….
February 28th, 2008 at 11:54 amI truly despise that idiot.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:55 amwas he drunk, AGAIN?!?
Comment by Kay — February 28, 2008 @ 11:53 am
probably.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am1999 gasoline around $1.00/gallon
After 8 years of Bush and his oil connections $4.00/gallon.
Let’s see he’s let the dollar drop to new lows so the oil producing countries raise the price to keep up, or to advance, since the price of oil uses the dollar as the standard.
Of course all of those Texas wells that were all closed because the price was too low are now pumping at capacity.
Think there’s a connection?
February 28th, 2008 at 11:59 ambush is trying to say that the media speculating gas prices will be $4 is not accurate. he is being a dick about it though and he makes himself look like a moron because of his poor communication skillz…
February 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pmYeah, gg thats good logic… With those massive tax cuts for the oil industry that Bush put in place, gas prices really went down.
Oh wait…
February 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pmThink there’s a connection?
Comment by dogjudge — February 28, 2008 @ 11:59 am
kay’s right. it’s the drinking. time for an intervention.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pmHow funny, first we have the drunk, druggie spewing crap on the new’s and now we have a double gag troll posting crap on every thread…Maybe we could get the troll to go and (pleasure the nut) so we can impeach him….
February 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pmI don’t think he was drinking
I think he’s just an idiot
February 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pmI have never in my life hated someone as much as I do this sorry excuse for a man.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pmHow funny, first we have the drunk, druggie spewing crap on the new’s and now we have a double gag troll posting crap on every thread…Maybe we could get the troll to go and (pleasure the nut) so we can impeach him….
Comment by Witch1 — February 28, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
impeachment = intervention.
plus the he’ll have the advantage of getting an early start on building his “library”.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pmSad to say that Dear Leader appears to be suffering from both ethical and intellectuality deficit disorder. Oh he started out alright, but after the frog-firecracker incident things went steadily downhill. So much potential wasted on so many poor choices. It’s a pity really. /snark
February 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pmLet me explain: It must not be easy to be an all time fhucked up and mumbling idiot your whole life.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pmAs if we needed even more evidence of how out of touch this dolt is with the economy and the issues facing the average Joe American every day.
Worst President. Worst Administration. Ever.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pmGood Morning Juan C. good to read you here….Blessings
February 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm“And so, the answer to your question is really I can’t answer your questions well.”
Tell us something we DON’T know!
Also, Witch1, strength to you in the coming year. If it makes you feel any better you are not alone. This is one helluva year and I for one will be anxious until the end of January 2009!!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pmComment by Juan C. — February 28, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
more mumblings:
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/02/your-preside-18.html
(h/t c&l)
let the intervention begin.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pmJuan C; Don’t feel sorry for this POS, feel sorry for all the people who suffered because of this scumbag.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pmGood Morning Juan C. good to read you here….Blessings
Comment by Witch1
Thanks, Witch1. Nice reading you here and at TheZoo.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pmBack at ya Mary, I am weary from this administration….Dreadful time’s for our country and the world because of this drunk wacko…..Blessings
February 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pmI, frankly, have been focused elsewhere
Story of his life.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pmHas anyone correlated fuel cost versus American obsession with using vehicles as symbols of status? There must be some point where these two intersect. Let’s set the price there
February 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pm$4.00 a gallon??? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pmJuan C; Don’t feel sorry for this POS, feel sorry for all the people who suffered because of this scumbag.
Comment by Uncle Ho
Wow. I think you just shut my mouth.
I was trying to say that Bush is one useful idiot that the real owners and deciders of the US have been using for about 8 years. Like Reagan.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pmmore photos of Abu Ghraib at http://www.rawstory.
America, this is what is being done in YOUR name, BY Americans.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:13 pmComment by good_golly — February 28, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Looks like GG is taking the same drugs Dumbya is on.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:13 pmGG is making as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.
Can’t even stand to listen to him anymore.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:13 pmGiGi; go Cheney yourself!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pmActually, he’s spending his time fantasizing about living out his days on the gov’t teat, having never done an honest day’s work.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pmI was trying to say that Bush is one useful idiot that the real owners and deciders of the US have been using for about 8 years. Like Reagan.
Comment by Juan C. — February 28, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Yep, Bush is a brain addled sockpuppet for the real rulers of America.
I still cannot believe that moron was elected, twice.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:17 pmIts like a nightmare you cannot wakeup from.
Juan C, no offense meant to you
One fellow veteran once said;
You will find sympathy in the dictionary between shit and syphillis.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:18 pmThe thing is that nobody will hear the truth. MSM will only cover what this idiot said and not the reality we all are living with. Go back and listen to what this liar said (without throwing up in your mouth a little bit):
February 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm1. For the working guy.
2. Not for bailing out the corporations just the average working person
3. We’re all gonna die if we don’t give telecoms immunity and all our bills will go up worse if they have to pay frivolous lawsuits
4. “Putting money on the table (sic)” which is probably my favorite.
The beat goes on and on and THIS is all the “average guy” will hear. We have to get these corrupt idiots out of office and start putting this nation back together.
Uncle Ho, I think in the future we will find reference to bull shit bush between shit and syphillis as well……Blessings
February 28th, 2008 at 12:22 pmUncle Ho ;)
February 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pmIt’s kind of comforting to see that most of you feel like I do (except of course for the resident idiot troll goo_goo). I really don’t like feeling so much hate for someone – it only winds up hurting me because the jackass “decider” is too stupid and uncaring for me (or any of us) to waste so much energy on. I wish it were 01-20-2009 – unless Mcbushcain should win. The thought of that happening is just too depressing to even think about.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pm“And so, the answer to your question is really I can’t answer your questions well.”
…probably as close as were ever going to get to a truthful statement from this idiot.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pmIf Congressional Democrats get their wish with the massive tax increase on the oil industry, that tax increase will be passed on to the consumer, and we will likely see higher gas prices as a result. Democrats want high gas prices so that they can use it for political gain, but will scream “fix†when the prices start to come down in August – November.
The moronic troll is right. If we either tax the oil industry or take away their tax breaks, they will just increase the price of gasoline to punish us for being so audacious as to think they should pay their fair share of taxes. They have to make sure that their obscene billions of dollars of profit per month stays the same. The only way they can do that is to pass on any taxes or rescinding of tax breaks to the consumers.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pmI still cannot believe that moron was elected, twice.
Its like a nightmare you cannot wakeup from.
Comment by Wayne
Well, to be sincere, and not trying to be provokative, let’s review US psyche:
Janet Jackson’s tit in the SuperBowl = Total condemnation.
Broadcasting Shock and Awe = Freedom on the march.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pmWhat is more astonishing than how dumb this man is . . . is how dumb the people are to vote for someone this fundamentally idiotic.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pmComment by muzz — February 28, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
Yeah, I think all of us ( with a brain ) are suffering from Bush fatigue right now.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pmMake that Neocon fatigue as well.
This idiot keeps mocking middle class America as if we were stupid or something! So many people have died because of this war criminal freak! On 9/11 and every day in Iraq he has profiteered on the deaths of innocent civilians! How sweet it will be to see you fall and hit the ground hard idiot! I can’t wait!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pmTransportation economists tell us that the decision to take mass transport is a function of how we value our time, with an additional variable of how much we value the freedom to be able to drive our own car while at work.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pmIt would take me 1.5 each way to get to work via mass transit. If I carpool it takes me 35 minutes, but I’m still in a car, chewing up gas.
If I could take a 45 minute bus ride, I’d do it in a heart beat.
So the question is, why don’t I live closer to work? Price of housing near work is 1/3 higher than where I live, can’t afford it.
If we reduce the demand, prices will go down, somewhat, and slowly.
But the kicker is the investment in mass transit that would need to be ramped up… and the time and political will to do that.
(1.5 hours)…
February 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pmI suppose Fox news failed to cover the gas price stories so the psychopath in chief had no way to know of these predictions.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pmComment by RUCerious — February 28, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
My brother just moved back to the States from Japan, where he’d been living for 5 years, and the biggest adjustment for him has been the lack of mass transit.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pmHe keeps asking how people can afford to live like this and I keep telling him that we won’t be able to for much longer.
How much money will it take to buy the one book for the Bush Library?
Even the trolls hate paying $4 a gallon for gas….
February 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pmwhat an assh*le!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pmWere his lips moving? Then, . . . .
February 28th, 2008 at 12:43 pmBut the kicker is the investment in mass transit that would need to be ramped up… and the time and political will to do that.
Comment by RUCerious — February 28, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
The lack of political will is the kicker. So many places have no interest in even giving it a shot. I live just north of Atlanta, and I find it stunning how bad the mass transit system is here. I suppose what makes it worse is that before I lived in Boston, and their system is top notch.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pmBorn retarded is not one’s fault.
Bush retarded by choice is not America’s fault.
Americans believe his Bushist is American’s fault.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pmComment by good_golly — February 28, 2008 @ 11:55 am
And yet the obscene level of profits Big Oil is making here doesn’t faze g_g in the least…
February 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm“And so, the answer to your question is really I can’t answer your questions well.”
- G Bush…
“Or answer the questions poorly, for that matter… Hell, I can’t answer anything anymore. Sh*t… I’m barely coherent these days… anybody want a drink? The first half dozen are on me!”
February 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pmOh you people are so ungrateful. Our big brave leader is giving us $600. Now either we give it to the oil companies or we give it to China. Tell them gone_goofy, shouldn’t they be more appreciative. /sarc
February 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pmI think Bush has mad cow from all the tainted meat he allowed to reach the market. Surely nobody is that deranged without having some disease. I’ve met a lot of drunks but nobody that bad.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pmOh and GiGi, why don’t you go Cheney yourself.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pmThat fits the definition of ‘Spin’ perfectly…
February 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pmI’m already paying 3.55/gallon. Jeez, when is it going to stop?
February 28th, 2008 at 1:11 pmHe’s officially reached “Baghdad Bob” status now.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pmOf course good_golly wants this to happen. The neocons are already lieing in the woods waiting to scream that it’s the Dems’ fault. If the Dems don’t remove the oil industries tax cuts, then good_golly’s masters, the men whose boots good_golly licks, will be happy because they managed to ‘beat the Dems’, whatever that means. If the Dems do manage to remove the insane tax breaks the oil companies are getting in today’s economic climate, then any downside of that decision, no matter how slight, will be crowed out loudly by the Neocons.
Win-Win scenario, good_golly thinks.
What good_golly doesn’t get, however, is that the Oil companies have no friends in the rank and file of American consumers…
February 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pmFirst: The War Criminal in chief should be behind barrs waiting for execution!
February 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pmSecond: Grolly bolly your reazoning amazes me! What is it that this people smoke??!!! I want it too!!!! I want to be able to stay away from reality…
Doncha worry, oil companies will never be looked on in favorable light, no matter how many sycophants defend them.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm“Bush: I’m ‘focused’ on gas prices but unware of $4 gas.”
Blame Jack Daniels for his retarded comment. He should have stayed in Africa.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pmI thank TP once again for wanting lower priced Oil. I can only hope that you will join with many others by asking we open up more Oil drilling in America to help reduce the price. You can’t be for lower gas prices and not for more Oil production.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:22 pmNow we know Cheney is President no one is that stupid. Why in the world would Bush care about what the cost of gas is anyway, as he doesn’t care what problems the American people are facing.
I look forward to seeing McCain become our next President. Hillary and Obama were wrong big time when they said this election was about a woman or a Black man. First we know American Woman don’t support woman in anything. Next yes Obama is a Rock Star but when the KKK joins forces that Star will fade. Now the History will be made by John McCain as he will be the first President of the United States who isn’t a Natural Born Citizen. Yes this leads the way for others who weren’t born in the US to become President. Putin might come here and get his US citizenship as he can’t be President of Russia again but he can become President of the United States. Now Gov. Arnie in California just might be our President one day if you can understand what he says since he doesn’t speak English well. Oh well Bush doesn’t know English even with the College Degree he was given as a favor to his Father.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pmThe only book in the “Bush Library” will be “My Pet Goat”
February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pmComment by Roger_Roger — February 28, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Sorry Roger, but your post doesn’t make any more sense just because you spam it on each thread.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pmI’m sorry, but sometimes this is way too easy.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pmPresident Bush is an idiot!!
RrOoGgEeRr alot of the rise in oil prices is because of the devaluating dollar. The U.S. must import about 66 million gallons of refined gasoline because our refineries can’t make enough.
We need more refineries.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pmRoger_Roger @ 74:
Bullshit!
The current high prices are not due to our lack of capacity – our current reserves and our production is high. No, problems are due to artificial “speculation” in the market and not basic supply/demand issues. Our ability to produce matches or exceeds that of the Saudis and we do have a strategic reserve for a reason. No my friend, the issue here is and has been for 8 years “Windfall Profits”. You can’t whine about losing money and needing tax breaks when you are raking in the money hand over fist. Each quarter, Exxon, Shell, etc post “record profits”…..this is not due to gas taxes or the need to make more refineries.
Another issue is that the oil companies are too cheap to upgrade their refineries and maintain their pipelines.
Take your talking points elsewhere!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pmMy Pet Rock has a lomger short term memory than W.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pmHow can he not be aware of fuel prices when at every corner there are billboards displaying price?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pmCan anyone believe that the WH hasn’t been briefed on the public concern over high gas prices ?
Of course, who was it that didn’t know how much a gallon of milk cost ?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pmHa ha! the bubble boy needs a teleprompter chyron running across his podium so he can see what he said thirty seconds ago.
If he was so focused on gas prices, he lied when he denied hearing about the predictions of $4/gal.
I just love his pressers; despite my unsettled stomach when he is on TV — there are so many opportunities to laugh at him; just think of what the late night hosts will do with the fresh ammunition.
If we aren’t able to get the satisfaction of impeachment, criminal charges, indictment, trials and imprisonment for him – it’s not so much to ask that he be given opportunities to make an a$$ of himself, and see him leave office to the catcalls, sneers, jeers of a public happy to be rid of him. He will be the butt of jokes for years, as the undeniably worst president in history.
Unfortunately, the hell he has brought to tens of thousands of families of soldiers is no laughing matter- but one for which he surely deserves prosecution.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:44 pmI missed some of the presser today – did he accuse the Democrats of staying the course in Iraq because they haven’t changed their minds about getting out?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pmAnyone hear that?
You can’t be for lower gas prices and not for more Oil production.
Comment by Roger_Roger — February 28, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
actually, you can be, if you take the oil executives out back and execute them for war profiteering. gas prices would become reasonable very quickly.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm“1999, $1 a gallon”…”the future of $4 a gallon”…
I hate to burst your bubble of anger, but you ought to be reminded that that US prices weren’t realistic in 1999 and they aren’t now. As in: way too low.
I live in Amsterdam and if I would have a car, the average price I’d be paying for a gallon of unleaded petrol would be $8,55.
It’s a bit unfair, I know, since it has taken Europe decades of heavy taxation to change society’s mechanics (attitude) towards more transport (public) and fuel efficiency, AND our dense cities were not created solely around the automobile, but hey, just to give notice.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:15 pm“I can’t answer your questions well”
Bush has finally come to realize this? It only took him 7 years?
The cluelessness on the gas price issue was priceless. It reminded me of his dad when he first confronted a price scanner in a supermarket. Cluelessness must run in the family, especially while they are occupying the Whitehouse.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:48 pmwe went to war in iraq and afganistan over oil and we are declaring the rights to something like 65% of iraqs oil wells yet prices are through the roof. the permanent military bases we are building in iraq are to safeguard our oil interests in the region and are strategically placed nearby them. this administration are a bunch of criminals plain and simple. bush and cheney have made hundreds of millions since taking office but thats not enough. they have to ruin our economy. 3/4 of the aid money going to afganistan and iraq have gone missing. UNACCOUNTED FOR! they should be impeached AND arrested. and the democrats suck for taking no action. i might vote for nader. he is the best candidate and is always looking out for US.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pmI suppose Fox news failed to cover the gas price stories so the psychopath in chief had no way to know of these predictions.
Comment by rehbock — February 28, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Heh heh…somebody forgot to make the Chimp a DVD of the evening news.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pm8 years in the office and still SOOOOOOO dumb !
I still cannot believe this country is so dumb to have re-elected him. America, you have brought this upon yourself.
I feel so sorry for my kids and the rest of the world. According to Peter Schiff (Author of Crash Proof), this is just the beginning of a world crisis.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pmPresidential library for this dumb nut, my ass!
If I can, I would pee all over his library and from the air too !
February 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pmOne Liners:
I don’t need any experts to tell me we are headed for $4 per gallon gas.
We knew we needed to get off of oil in the “70’s.
We have other ways to power vehicles and could be pumping up our economy with those technologies.
We could be leading the world in renewable energy sources right now if we were trying, just like we have led in every other technology in our history.
Oil companies have used their money and power to keep us on oil and our past presidents have played along.
We don’t have to give up personal vehicles, we have to learn how to properly power them sustainably, just like we learned how to travel in space.
Bill Clinton’s stupidity helped put W in the White House.
W is playing everything for his buddies at the country club, not the American people.
This video makes the show Lil’ Bush seem real…
The Bush administration has all government officials scared for their jobs and lives… ie… Valerie Plame and Federal Prosecutors, and National Parks Employees, just to name a few, “If you don’t agree with W then we will hurt you.”
If there is justice on this earth, W will pay for his illegal activities…
We are still strong enough to dig ourselves out of this hole.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:40 pmPS I sure hope somebody goes after Bush like they did Clinton for the bj… there is a lot more serious sh*t goin down this time, and really, who’s business is a bj anyway?
February 29th, 2008 at 5:55 pmWhere has Bush and his people been all these months. Here’s a photo of Gas prices in Needles, CA taken end of May 2007:
http://underboss.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/gas-prices-in-the-usa/
Today In Los Angeles – Gas prices are $3.83
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm