Remember it wasn't Bush's fault either

Learn to live with it? For me personally, that's a hellz to the no! What else should I learn to live with? Outrageous food prices? Exponentially higher energy prices? Higher property taxes? For me, it's not only gas. Gas is just the last straw. EVERYTHING is going up... except for what I earn, of course. That's going the opposite direction. So learn to live with it? Heck no! I don't rightly care if it's "unfair" to blame the President or not. If he can't take the criticisms, I'm sure someone's ready to step in and fill his shoes. Maybe he's not the biggest reason it's going up. But he doesn't seem to be doing too much to bring it down either. There are plenty of things he and his administration could do to bring some prices down, like simply not having energy producers living in constant fear of uberhikes due to his pre-Presidency promise, or opening up water for farming in CA and stopping with this strange micromanagment of farming, or, and this is for politicians in general, stop trying to milk every single penny to pay for stuff and just spend less. When people are criticized, they know the masses are disgruntled. This hurts their odds of staying in power. This forces people to act where they otherwise wouldn't. People, NEVER LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT! I got your back!

Yeah, actually it was Bush's fault. Just like it is President Obama's fault now. They were the President. Frankly, it is way past time people stop trying to keep President Obama in training pants. He is the President ULTIMATELY it is his responsibility whether it is his fault or not. The buck stops at the top. This criticism isn't any different from any other criticism that Presidents have faced.

When the current president has spent more money than almost all the former presidents combined, it's fair to wonder how billions to Brazil's oil industry is a priority, but domestic SS or oil isn't. I don't blame Prs. Obama for the price of gas, but I do blame him for his corrupt and viscous attack against domestic oil production. While he is using taxpayer (and borrowed) money bolstering other country's petroleum production, he is illegally and unconstitutionally holding ours back. I was honest enough to call Prs. Bush to task when he violated the US Constitution by signing McCain-Feingold campaign finance into law (knowing it was unconstitutional). Yet I notice you and almost all other Obama fans can't seem to find enough honesty in your character to call Obama out. The fact is, Obama and the Energy Department purposely bilked domestic oil companies out of billions. How? They approved areas for oil production, then after the companies spent billions in exploration and preparation for drilling, they refused to issue licenses to drill. Yes, this is the kind of thugocracy your president practices. He is no better than any other petty thug. You can defend this criminal all you want, but in the end, you are just admitting that you don't have a single honest bone in your body, and you revel in his crimes.

Actually it is the environmentalists's fault who considered animals moe important then people. They were the ones responsible for closing off oil wells in America, complaining that such a such a fish was in danger, etc. so they forced the Presidents to shut down offshore drilling. Now if President Bush had said that they should open up drilling in America, they would have said no way.But Obama went along with them since he is for Alternative energy and high gas prices, etc. And I doubt if he changed his mind and said "all right we need to drill domestically so open up those wells," that the environmentalists would agree. -- unless he became dictator of America and decided to line them against the wall and shoot them if they did not obey. So now IK heard and saw on TV, that Exon is getting oil from Canada where I live. And it gets really cold here in the winter. Buy the way, saying it does not matter is the worse thing to do. Most CAnadians are like that, too complacent. The only way to get things done is to complain . Nice to know that you are independently wealthy, have all our family living near by, and have no desire to travel, by the way.

I'm not sure who is to blame for the high gas prices. I know it sure does hurt our family financial means though. We don't complain but we sure have a hard time affording it.

I don't blame this president exclusively, I blame them all for the past 50 years. We have resources to supply us with oil for hundreds of years, yet we are not allowed to make use of them. We have geniuses who have come up with designs for natural-gas powered cars--we have enough natural gas here to power the entire world for centuries--but they cannot get funded because the oil magnates have the power to defeat them, kill them or otherwise stifle legislation that would bring the idea to fruition. I don't blame the prez for the price of gas but I will blame him for not allowing us to tap our own resources, as I have blamed presidents before him.

When gas went to $4.00 a gallon under President Bush he approved more drilling and lifted bans on drilling. Within months gas was down to $1.68. Since President Obama took office gas has been steadily increasing while he has prevented drilling and denied permits to oil companies to drill where they were told they could. To me he and his administration have done everything to cut fossil fuel use and force Americans to go green even if it destroys our economy and country. He has no clue how to build the economy or create jobs.

I think it's just an inevitablity and it's silly to keep looking for a scapegoat. Better to learn to adapt. Awhile back I read an incredible book called "$20 a Gallon" that discusses the changes that will occur as the price of oil rises. The author thinks the changes will probably begin when gas hits $4 a gallon (NOW) because that's the point where it will sink in that fuel are destined to rise and there is no stopping that rise. The book's most interesting premise is that although the changes will alter our way of life, they are not all bad and if we can roll with the punches, we'll be okay and in a lot of ways better off.

There will always be a sizable number of people who will blame whomever the President is at any given time for just about EVERYTHING; that's just the way it is, I guess! However, with THIS President it seems to be even more pronounced than usual. You could take almost every single issue President Obama has had to address at any level and say, "He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!" Regarding the subject at hand, the price of gas, if he were to try to take some hard action about it he'd be accused of micromanagement or trying to take over business. As it is, he's still being blamed for the moratorium on off-shore drilling in the Gulf although permits have been being issued again for several months; of course, there are those who are angry at the President for THAT as well. Also, when people complain about the moratorium they seriously seem to have forgotten the reason WHY that had to happen. Of course, they also don't understand that if the Gulf was so full of oil rigs you couldn't see anything else that still wouldn't guarantee us lower gas prices now or for many years to come. Ironically, gas is expected to drop in price within "days instead of weeks", or so I heard on the radio yesterday; does that mean we'll see people here THANKING President Obama...lol? You're so right about the Social Security COLAs but trying to explain that that also wasn't Obama's fault is like talking to the wall. Those who want to blame him for everything will do just that - blame him for everything! Annie

Well I was quite clear back in 2008 that gas prices weren't simply Bush's fault and obviously they're not Obama's right now. Both presidents can certainly be accused of actions that helped contribute, but so can congress, and the EPA. The thing that stuns me most (well, not really) are all those people that were screaming it WAS Bush's fault. They were viscous about it insisting that he was lining his pockets with high gas prices. Those people have been eerily silent since gas prices have skyrocketed under Obama.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. William O. Douglas Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S Truman In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive John F. Kennedy What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. Molly Ivins You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. Vaclav Havel It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment Elie Wiesel If I must be quiet and accept my lot to be a good American, it is time to die. Debra K. Carey

Of course it's unfair to blame one individual person for our horrible country's economy. It's our own damn fault. High demand, high prices, and the foreigners we buy oil from know this, and use it to their advantage.