Moment of Derp

Posted on March 14, 2012 at 3:30 pm by JM Ashby

Louisiana Governor Kenneth the Page Bobby Jindal has a bone to pick with President Obama over gas prices. There’s just one problem.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday ripped President Barack Obama over rising gas prices and said any of the Republican 2012 candidates will do “so much better” if elected to the White House.

“The reality is, gasoline prices have doubled under this president, highest prices for oil and gasoline in a 150 years. People used to think it was because of incompetence from Obama administration on energy – I think it’s because of ideology. They’re pursuing a radical environmental ideology,” Jindal said on “Fox & Friends.”

Oil and gas is not at its highest level in 150 years, unless 2008 was 150 years ago. Gasoline peaked at $4.26 per gallon in 2008 leading up to Wall Street Armageddon.

Does Bobby Jindal have a time machine?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S7NUGMJ2FDHYATRLWFEFCC5CQI schemata

    There was no “2008.” History began on 1.20.2009

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Norris/1597765442 Michael Norris

    No. He’s an idiot and a liar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Oscar-D-Ramallo/1349703231 Oscar D. Ramallo

    According to this:

    http://cleantechnica.com/2011/11/01/think-new-clean-energy-costs-too-much-oil-cost-500-a-barrel-at-startup/

    Petroleum prices 150 years ago were the equivalent of $500 a barrel, about 5 times the cost today.

    I’d imagine gasoline prices would be even higher than that since there weren’t exactly a lot of state of the art refineries in the 1860′s.

  • BuffaloBuckeye

    And I’m sure that ‘Fox and Friends’ challenged Bobby J on that assertion.

  • agrazingmoose

    He lives in Louisiana. It just feels like 150 years.

  • D_C_Wilson

    He doesn’t need a time machine. He has something better: The Fox Bubble. Guaranteed to be impervious to all facts.

  • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

    On a local radio station they were talking about the price of gas and saying, “oh it’s so high!” but if someone contradicted them and said, it was higher in 2008….they just return to the “oh it’s so high” meme. The stoopid….it hurts.

  • Brutlyhonest

    I always screams at the teevee box when an intrepid journalist dutifully reports the industry line on why gas prices are up. Just once, I’d like to hear one of them ask how prices on oil that won’t be in the retail pipeline for 6 months can legitimately affect prices today. The real bottom line is it’s a supply & demand game. Gas prices should never be discussed without talking about the oil company profits.

    • TheEccentric

      I’m reminded of a Robert Klein bit from one of his comedy albums from the 70s, which just goes to show how little things change: The president of Shell Oil, on the principle of Supply and Demand – “We control all the SUPPLY, so we can DEMAND whatever the fuck we want.”

      True then, true now.