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If McCain had won in '08, gas would cost...?

The price of gas under President McCain would have been

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OK, there's been a lot of noise about gas prices. Here's a chance for the haters to tell us how much of a utopia we'd be living in if Obama hadn't won.
 
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Probably a bit lower, just because corporations are deathly afraid of Obama to the point that they sit on treasury liquidity like it may evaporate into thin air. This would have a moderate affect on gas prices, and create a chain of causation.
 
I voted 3 because there was no option for higher, We would be in a 3rd war while still maintaining heavy military influence in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. It boggles my mind how some are blaming lack of drilling permits and sanctions for high oil prices while simultaneously calling for war with Iran.
 
McCain = Obama pretty much. The only major difference today if McCain would have won is that we wouldn't have got Obamacare but the courts will overturn that so in the end the differences are small.
 
About the same. I think maybe a bit more stable and probably around 10 or 15 cents lower, the Macondo well did not help and we still have a lot of overregulation that either Obama or McCain would have had to deal with.
 
I don't think there is enough real difference between the two that there would have been that much of a difference.
 
Probably about the same. McCain was weak as a *conservative* candidate, and would barely have been any different from what we have. On the plus side, we most likely wouldn't have the atrocious health care reform looming in our future, so overall, I would have preferred McCain any day over Obama.
 
soccerboy22 said:
I don't think there is enough real difference between the two that there would have been that much of a difference.
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Exactly, McCain isn't exactly a conservative and his economic policies were about as liberal as Obama's. Plus I think the democrat super majority would have rolled McCain.
 
LaMidRighter said:
Exactly, McCain isn't exactly a conservative and his economic policies were about as liberal as Obama's. Plus I think the democrat super majority would have rolled McCain.
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Now, substitute Reagan for McCain, and gas would probably be about a dollar per gallon. :D
 
lizzie said:
Now, substitute Reagan for McCain, and gas would probably be about a dollar per gallon. :D
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Possibly, but then again it's impossible to know with all the hyper partisan BS coming from D.C. right now.
 
its beyond silly, to think the POTUS can effect gasoline prices to any significant degree, after 4 years.
 
Thunder said:
its beyond silly, to think the POTUS can effect gasoline prices to any significant degree, after 4 years.
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Touché , Thunder. You'd think that people would understand market spot prices are complex and it would virtually be impossible for any president to have such power.
 
Gipper said:
Probably a bit lower, just because corporations are deathly afraid of Obama to the point that they sit on treasury liquidity like it may evaporate into thin air. This would have a moderate affect on gas prices, and create a chain of causation.
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There is about 0 evidence of that being the case.
 
whysoserious said:
There is about 0 evidence of that being the case.
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Not necessarily. The pipeline debacle and moratorium are two major issues, though McCain possibly would have tried at least one of those so I guess it's kind of a moot point.
 
Thunder said:
its beyond silly, to think the POTUS can effect gasoline prices to any significant degree, after 4 years.
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This is the typical short term thinking from voters that has brought us back to $4.00 a gallon gas.
 
Probably close to the same, just as I believe the prices would've been close to the same if not a little higher if Gore had got electe instead of Bush.

The point I'm getting confused at is that we're pushing people to have more economical cars that use less gas....and people are driving less which uses less gas....and yet we're somehow horribly surprised when the cost of gas goes up to compensate for the reduction in demand.
 
rocket88 said:
OK, there's been a lot of noise about gas prices. Here's a chance for the haters to tell us how much of a utopia we'd be living in if Obama hadn't won.
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Roughly the same. I don't think we'd see significant difference between a McCain presidency and Obama's. Obama may not jump to war quite as fast as McCain, and we got a healthcare "debate"; but that's probably about it.
 
I voted for $1.86. McCain opposed the Obama stimulus package which saved the world from depression, starvation, locusts and pestilence. With McCain, therefore, we would still be in the depths of the Bush Recession and, thus, paying next to nothing for a tank of gas.
 
rocket88 said:
OK, there's been a lot of noise about gas prices. Here's a chance for the haters to tell us how much of a utopia we'd be living in if Obama hadn't won.
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Things would be no different had McCain won. The price of gas would still be about the same.
 
LaMidRighter said:
Not necessarily. The pipeline debacle and moratorium are two major issues, though McCain possibly would have tried at least one of those so I guess it's kind of a moot point.
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I am not aware of a debacle. Sorry.
 
Hare said:
I voted 3 because there was no option for higher, We would be in a 3rd war while still maintaining heavy military influence in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. It boggles my mind how some are blaming lack of drilling permits and sanctions for high oil prices while simultaneously calling for war with Iran.
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I call for drilling and PEACE with Iran, Afraghistan, Iraq.
How to do this is not difficult, but the attitude adjustment is.
Is there nations wish to live in the 16th century, it is no ones business but theirs....Of course, they (the Islamics) do want it both ways..
21st century money and a 16th century society....Maybe all of the oil money should have been placed in a trust....
Anyway, even if our "ways" are better, we must not impose them, even indirectly....
Mr Obama was correct about the apology.....we simply do not have the quality of men to be over "there"....
A crying shame , our military is otherwise great !
 
1Perry said:
McCain = Obama pretty much. The only major difference today if McCain would have won is that we wouldn't have got Obamacare but the courts will overturn that so in the end the differences are small.
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You think that it is a step forward for our nation NOT to have affordable health care ?
You also think that every developed nation on our planet is wrong about health care ?
Interesting ....
 
earthworm said:
You think that it is a step forward for our nation NOT to have affordable health care ?
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Except that Obama did nothing to make health care more affordable. Insurance costs have gone up.
You also think that every developed nation on our planet is wrong about health care ?
Interesting ....
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The rightness or wrongness of a thing is not determined by the number of people who think a certain way.
 
Zyphlin said:
Probably close to the same, just as I believe the prices would've been close to the same if not a little higher if Gore had got electe instead of Bush.

The point I'm getting confused at is that we're pushing people to have more economical cars that use less gas....and people are driving less which uses less gas....and yet we're somehow horribly surprised when the cost of gas goes up to compensate for the reduction in demand.
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IMO, a demand reduction would result in lower prices, one would think.
But what we do have is a true world-wide demand increase and at the same time a perceived or feared supply decrease (Iran).
I speak of peace..
Question.... as I recall, a few years back, the price per barrel from the well peaked at $100, yet the pump price was less that $3 per gallon.
Why ?
Inflation ?
 
lizzie said:
Now, substitute Reagan for McCain, and gas would probably be about a dollar per gallon. :D
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Conservatives are quite good at living in the past....in this case...China...and India...
Confusing ?
Not for those with calendars and knowledge.
 
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