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Monday, April 25, 2011

"It's not my job, man!" Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don't Blame Obama

I wish we could capture the media's gas.

Gas Prices Top $1-a-Gallon Higher than Year Ago; Media Don't Blame Obama
Networks have refused to connect administration to steadily rising gas prices.
  • By Julia A. Seymour
  • Monday, April 25, 2011 10:24 AM EDT

The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $3.86 on April 25, more than $1-a-gallon higher than a year earlier and less than 25 cents away from the record high price of gasoline set in July 2008.


In fact, per gallon prices are more than $2 higher than when Obama took office Jan. 20, 2009. Yet the president has been nearly exempt from criticism on the issue of rising prices, despite a six-month drilling moratorium and more regulatory hurdles for industry.


The Business & Media Institute found that out of the 280 oil price stories the network evening shows have aired since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill,only 1 percent (3 stories) mentioned Obama's drilling ban or other anti-oil actions in connection with gasoline prices.

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