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The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn’t Set Gas Prices
America produces 200 times as much oil as Germany, but our gas prices rise and
fall in tandem (we pay far lower gas taxes). Source: Energy Information
Administration and NY Times.
The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn’t Set Gas Prices
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/19/447095/the-charts-that-prove-obama-doesnt-set-gas-prices/
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while a rethug congresswoman just ignored it and started off on a fantastical yarn about oil production in the '70s and '80s. 
I hear Newt Gingrich is promising the right wing sheep 2.5$ gas, if elected! Oh also, he'll invade Iran and the invasion will somehow lower the gas prices. 
