California gas prices

[Varmit]

Originally Posted by Thor maine

Not to go all political, but I will!!! You can't have it both way's!! You can't say that ObamaCare is going to bankrupt the country and that free market should always set the price and then complain about the way the free market sets the gas/fuel price!! The president has almost no control on the world wide oil price unless he would open the strategic reserves and flood the market and drive the price of gas down. But then you would call that ObamaGas and claim it was the end of capitalism and the free world.

To some extent it is political. I realize Obama has little directly to control the cost of gasoline, but he should not have been slammin Bush about the price of gas during his administration and Bush looking out for his buddies in Big Oil. Don't make the accusation, and hide form the same argument when the shoe is on Obama's foot. Secondly, the liberals fight tooth and nail to prevent any further construction of refineries. There are only a so many, and none have been constructed in many years. Things can be done politically, but it is not the political correct thing to do in the current leftist agenda. JMHO!!

As far as the Obama care goes in this argument, it the President limited the number of companies that provide insurance, think that might have an impact on the price, if only a few were controlling the distribution of the product. After all they are going to decide who when and what time the care will be limited, by the government stepping in a deciding. Don't sound like free enterprise to me