Would the Promise Of $2 A Gallon Gas Get Your Vote?

It's gonna take a hellofalot more than that to get my vote.

how? Remove all gas taxes?

It's "drill, baby, drill" again.

"Bachmann did not lay out a specific plan to drop prices on Tuesday. But her campaign website says that as president, she would ease restrictions on drilling and roll back federal regulations on the shale gas industry."

I'm all for drill baby drill but not so much for shale gas. I wrote a tech paper on alternative energy, and specifically wrote on the environmental effects of drilling for Shale Gas. There is a Mobil commercial on TV, which wisely leaves out any environmental issues, and they hint at a Canadian Shale site. Cleverly too, they do not refer to the Athabasca Site, a place of incredible environmental destruction. Chemical polluting rivers and aquifers leading to wildlife destruction and increasing cancer rates on villages living off the wildlife in the region. The place is public land but is secured and scientists are not allowed to enter and perform proper environmental studies - this is only done by measuring effects upriver and downriver and comparing. Shale gas may be abundant but it is much more risky to the environment than crude oil. It also requires vasts amounts of water, chemical treatment and waste control. You also need a dedicated local power source, so it is not cheap. At the end of the day, the cost to produce is the same or more than crude oil based gasoline, but long term it is much more expensive when you consider damage to the environment. Also, much of the Shale found in the US is found under National Parks in Colorado, a place that is seeing water shortages. Is this the price we are willing to pay for oil?

"I'm all for drill baby drill"

- Glad to see that you are hedging your bets on a limited resource. Really smart.

Proper creation and enforcement of environmental legislation will allow shale gas to be "green" as more conventional oil sources. This legislation will also drive up the cost of shale sourced fuels. It may or may not be economically feasible now compared to the reserves of more conventional oil that we still have left, but when the conventional reserves become harder and harder to get access to, the cost of energy will rise to a level that clean shale energy will be viable.

My comment was more in general to all that are running for pres. Not necessarly the price of gas.

Shale is still a limited resource. When the earth is gutted of all its natural resources, I guess that’s when people will wise up and look into renewable energy sources like Solar (by then it will be too late). Oil Companies have everyone tricked into believing that the only viable energy sources are the ones that can be dug up. America is in need of some serious unlearning.

First of all she would never be able to do it. So as usual she is making false statements and lacks any level of intellect to be president. She is a right wing religious zeolot, a racist, a homophobe, and someone that would push this country into the 18th century and a theocracy. The fact that she is "front runner" for the GOP should scare the crap of any sane and rational American.

"First of all she would never be able to do it" ... please enlighten me as to how you can prove this. Never mind all the baseless and hateful accusations which is all you have against someone that has actual experience vs our current so-called President who always voted present and only had community organizing experience -something a high school drop out can do. 2012 will be a bigger Tsunami than November 2010!!!

"baseless"? LOL!

Some people really need to get out of their bubble.

"The fact is, we were living pretty well until the '60s hippie radicals (and especially the feminists) started this country on the decline into a socialist welfare state."

- Selective memory I see. What about the Clinton years? Were we not prospering then? And what about Bush? You know the guy who turned the Clinton surplus into a deficit? Stop trying to blame everything on the Dems when the GOP screwed up the country even worse. You conservatives live by your own falsehoods and make up your own facts. That's why you were voted out of the whitehouse.

Welfare state? Funny how you don't mention anything about the corporate welfare that the GOP seems hell bent on increasing. Things like giving the most profitable industry in the world (the oil industry) tax payer money? Or GM and Google not paying any taxes (and receiving a return). Why don’t you mention any of that stuff?

I meant GE not paying taxes, not GM.

Obama included the wars in the budget numbers. Which is something that Bush didn't do. Another example of people not getting the entire story (or simply adhering to a certain narrative). If you were to count Obama's budget numbers without the wars then his deficit numbers wouldn't be out of the norm.

And can you please explain how Obama "destroyed the moral fabric of this society". Give examples.

Dumbfounded by me? I guess anything that involves facts dumbfounds you. What's even funnier is how you didn't comment on the corporate welfare?

They have you brainwashed so bad that you don't even question the fact that tax payer (which includes poor people) money is going to billion dollar corporations who don’t need it. Thank the GOP for that. But you are OK with that? Right?

LexSucks,
I'll address the corporate welfare issue for you. You mention GE and Google as examples of corporations that don't pay taxes. What you don't mention is that both are heavy contributors to Obama, with GE CEO, Jeffrey Immelt actually serving in the Obama administration on the Economic Recovery Advisory Board (a misnomer if there ever was one). GE also co-owns MSNBC, a network that openly cheerleads for Obama and the left. Google has an even closer relationship with Obama and worked hand-in-hand to get him elected. The CEO and founders are both huge Obama supporters. Moral of the story? The two biggest tax-evading corporate thieves are in bed with Obama, not the GOP.

As for your Clinton surplus fairytale, nice try, but the republican dominated congress forced the budget cuts that led to the surplus down Clinton's throat. He didn't want to swallow, but they gave him no choice. Secondly, the bottom began falling out of the economy before Clinton left office. Bush inherited the Clinton recession before Bush economic policies even went into effect. Those are the facts LexSucks. Deal with it.

So now its Clinton's fault that the economy is bad? LOL!!! Nice try.

@VISO - Great Post!

Whomever claims to be well versed in political science that would defend or argue in favor of a presidential candidate making such bold falsehoods should be admitted to a mental institution for idiocy.

One of the main reasons the U.S. continues to steadily move down a slippery slope with disaster looming ahead is because the majority of citizens in America are truly dumb and fall for anything that sounds great. Few have a clue about the political/economic system and how it actually works. Now people would rather sit on Facebook/Twitter or listen to talking points from the various pundits in the news media instead of educating themselves and vetting politicians to make sure they have some integrity.

All these tirades about an individual's various political leanings honestly has no bearing on the original topic and therefore mean squat, because anyone with half a brain should know that a sitting President has NO real control over the oil/gas industries and thus NO real ability to manipulate or change energy/natural resource commodity prices, especially for specific periods or time-frames.

LOL, no it would not. I need more than that when I am making an important decision, such as who to vote for.

Clearly the article focuses on only one aspect of her discourse. I can't say if this was done purposefully to generate buzz on this forum but clearly no one in their right mind would make such a decision on just one promise. M Bachmann has much more to offer than the $2/gal gas. I am not yet convinced on who the right candidate is whom I'll vote for. I know it will never be Obama and not Ron Paul - a guy that admits he would turn his back on social issues so as not to offend those that have different morale than him. What ever happened to standing up for your beliefs Ron? You can learn something from that hispanic heor who saved the life of that little girl out in CA this week. This guy DID NOT turn a blind eye and made it his goal to do something good.

I think everyone's answer to this dumb question is no. Those sympathizing simply cannot go on only one promise, and those against the GOP...well, they have the right to disagree.

Nope, will never vote for any GOP candidates... She has not explained how she could do this, and there are WAY BIGGER problems than people's SUVs poor mileage to solve...

Hey Meanvulcan since you seem to defend her, please name any kind of achievement that she has accomplished in congress? Multiple fact checks have shown she has zero accomplishments unless you want to count the rash of suicides associated with the schools in her district that is now under federal investigation. One of her campaign managers is connected to the right wing evangical movement in Uganda where he is associated in supporting a bill to kill gay people. Her gaffes and almost lack of historical knowlegde speak volumes about lack of intelligence. Furthermore, the teabagger that she claims to be is against government handouts, yet her farm has been subsidized by the feds:"The farm, which was owned by her father-in-law, produced income for Bachmann of at least $32,500 and as much as $105,000 from 2006 through 2009, according to the reports she filed for that period. The farm also received federal crop and disaster subsidies, according to a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group. From 1995 through 2010, the farm got $259,332 in federal payments." Not to mention that her closeted husband's bogus clinic has received medicaid money for dicredited programs. She is a complete hypocrite, just like the rest of the GOP candidates...and this coming from a Repbublican.

seriously? how in the hell can you not support my comment? your people are retarded

This is the best the GOP can do? LMFAO!!!

Bachmann is a loon. She'll be able to give us $2.00 a gallon gas, in the same way she thinks that gay can be prayed away.

This lady is a psycho. 009, Bachmann will not get elected. Way too far right wing. The current crop of GOP candidates are an embrassment to sane americans.

And Obama is the best the Dems can do?? LMFAO!

He's the president. He won!! LOL!! That's more than you can say about the psycho Bachmann.

He won because he never did anything and the voters didn't know who he was as far as his policies. He may have won but America lost.

So McCain would have been better? LOL!! He won because the GOP ran the country to the ground. And thats the same type of gov't that you want to see return? Good luck.

At least the GOP candidate has a goal to LOWER gas prices.

Compare that to Barack Obama who admitted that under his plan "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket" and his handpicked energy secretary, Steven Chu, who's stated goal is to drive up the price of gas to "European levels"($10+ per gallon) as a means to force Americans to buy smaller cars and move into more concentrated urban centers.

A prerequisite to lowering gas prices is at least have the desire to do so. President Obama has made his goal just the opposite.

"At least the GOP candidate has a goal to LOWER gas prices. "

- Talk is cheap. Is that all someone has to do these days is talk?
Rather than talk about alternative energy (like Obama) she's keeping the subject on gas prices. She's keeping the subject on fossil fuels, which makes the oil companies happy. How about she talk about emerging technologies? instead of the same old crap.

What legislation has Bachmann actually passed since she's been an elected official? Answer that for me please.

What legislation did Obama pass before he was elected??

First off how can you any one guaranty prices of a world wide commodity. We have two huge countries come out the third world (China & India) and into cars, so how can anyone say they will put oil price at a specific point. It’s either naïve or say “I will say anything to get a vote.

First sane comment award! Congrats.

HYLYFM !!!

I look for the day when people will stop believing in politicians and put an end to politics in general. This is just some garbage talk coming from yet another garbage politician. Doesn't every politician say such crap and when they get into the office each finds his/her own ways of ripping this country off, make them money ILLEGALLY and leave?

There'll be so much gas coming from Washington that's bound to get cheap..

being able to motivate 18000 pork chops in Iowa is a long distance from drastically impacting the global price of oil. She has peaked already.

And I've got some swamp land in Florida to sell you. Typical BS from a candidate trying to get elected. There some things I dislike about Obama.
I don't like the fact that he prefers to lead by consensus. I don't think it was worth pursuing health care in a down economy. If he wanted to improve health care he should have addressed infrastructure and health care costs.But as much as I'm dissapointed in Obama virtually everybody on the Republican side I think would be far worse. I cannot see or understand why anyone who is not rich would want to agree with any part of Republican idealogy in the 1st place. There is no evidence that companies will hire Americans unless there are incentives for them to do so. If you might have noticed over the past 10 yrs most larger companies have consolidated employees to improve their bottom line. Otherwise they have hired cheaper labor overseas.Republican ideology essentially favors the wealthy. It always had and always will. Up until the Reagon yrs wealthy people had a much higher tax rate then they due now. Since then we have become a " Feudalistic Society". 95% of us are nothing more then "Serfs". I just wonder how long it will take us to truely understand this concept. Obama clearly has his problems but any Republican running for president will only widen the divide between the rich and poor and reduce the middleclass.Obama inherited absolute crap when he became president. He has had a much more difficult challenge then any president since FDR. I think he could do better and he needs to focus on job creation. Cutting taxes for the wealthy is absurd. Just ask Warren Buffit. To say that the wealthy will stop investing is complete and utter nonsence. The Bush tax cuts are still in place yet the stock market is down,banks are still not lending money the way they should.As for Michelle Bachman she is classic conservative Republican ideolgy. It does not work. Rick Perry is even worse. if it were not for the rise in the price of oil and the stimulas package from Obama Texas would not be in such good shape.Perry did nothing acept to take credit for it.He is nothing but a "Blowhard Redneck" that is probably better suited running Nascar then the USA.

Wow, you say anything against Obama and you are voted down,lol, I agree that one would have to have shit for brains unless they were multi Millionaires, but the Democrats are run by the same money people, there is very little that the President can do, Even Bush JR spoke out against the banks before the fiasco, Bush was told to shut up or be sued, so you can't blame him at all for that, there has to be a major change in America, you need Ron Paul! that is DR Ron Paul, he would be the smartest president to date, you Americans are so brainwashed into having tunnel vision on the left and right parties that the gov has grown into a monster controlled by the rich corporations and the president has become a mere mascot, and the sad part is the majority of you have no idea!

when are you libs going to stop talking out of the both sides of your mouth. 1 green energy does not work period end of discussion. wind solar are you guys serious with this crap. then when we decide ok lets shut them up and want to build the windmills you say oh the poor birds are being killed or you will ruin the view of the cape (swimmer ted kennedy said that). you dont want us to drill but you dont want to build any nuclear plants and the best part is you will let someone else drill so we can be their customer. so basically ship the jobs out and be a buyer of someone elses product. then the epa is hangcuffing people and businesses with crippling regulations for nonsense. there will have to be a lot of changes to see 2 dollar gas again but its possible maybe build another refinery (hasnt been one in 30 years here.) finish the pipeline to get gas from canada etc. Last thing you want to say the evil oil companies they make 2 cents a gallon on gas after all is said and done. the feds make 18 cents per gallon and my state NY makes 68 cents a gallon so who is the real crooks?

It's obvious that you have never stepped one foot outside of the U.S.A. If you did you would see examples of alternate energy working. You also have no clue on how dangerous drilling for natural gas actualy is. Try wathcing the documentary "gasland" on HBO.

The oil companies are the biggest corporations in the world. Exxon made like $15 billion in profit last year. Yet you make it sound like they are barely squezing by on "2 cents a gallon" profit. Why the hell are you protecting the oil companies? What have they done for you? Why do people fight against thier own best interests? You think the oil companies give a damn about you? Amazing!

LexSucks, you just don't get it. It's not about defending those big bad oil companies. It's about defending the free market principles that allow for a way of life that's lifted billions out of poverty around the world.

You ask what the oil companies have done for people? A hell of a lot more than backward thinking leftist like you have. Oil companies invest money to extract the oil that literally fuels huge segments of the global economy. In the process they create thousands of jobs and contribute billions to the economy and tax base.

What does the left contribute, but failed economic theories, big brother social engineering plans, incentive-sapping redistributionist policies and equally distributed misery? The class warfare b.s. waged by you and your leftist cohorts reveals an ignorance of human nature, economics and logic. Sane people believe in encouraging, supporting and rewarding success, while the left wishes to punish success and reward failure.

Profit isn't a sin to be demonized. Without the incentive of profit and the advancement it affords very few of the modern advancements you enjoy would even exist—including the cars you comment on within this site.

MBC?!?!?!? Did you just talk about a Free market system in reference to someone who has pledge to change the price of a publicly traded commodity? You sir are a moron.

800over, if you had any reading comprehension whatsoever you would understand that the comments regarding the free market system were in direct reference to the oil companies and LexSucks ignorant demonization of private enterprise—not Michele Bachmann. Think before you speak, lest you reveal yourself to be an idiot once more. If you have anything relevant and coherent to debate, feel free to respond.

No one isn't demonizing profits. Thats the typical reaction from folks when the wealthy are asked to sacrifice along with everyone else. Sad part is that people who are defending the wealthy here are not wealthy themselves. Some people in the USA (Read GOP members) are brainwashed into coddling the rich. This is amazing.

"Exxon made like $15 billion in profit last year. Yet you make it sound like they are barely squezing by on "2 cents a gallon" profit. Why the hell are you protecting the oil companies?"

$15 billion isn't a lot considering that Exxon is one of the largest publicly traded companies.

lex sux your a typical lib with typical talking points let me help you on a few things ok this may take a while. 1 biggest myth in the world is that clinton ran a surplus there was no surplus it was based on estimated earnings of the internet bubble that never saw through. if you look at the numbers debt increased under clinton so how could there have been a surplus? 2 everything fiscally responsible that clinton did he was forced to do by the gop congress (gop ran things for clinton congress approves spending in case you didnt know) lets talk more ok bush was the biggest spender and was not a conservative he was a rino but lets see you were complaining then at 5 % unemployment but i dont hear anything at 9.1 and the biggest food stamp state out there now. odummy is saying he had tsunami earthquakes arab summer what have you bush had 9 11 and katrina yet no peep from bush. bush inherited a recession yet no peep again. your boy odummy is the biggest spender of all time took him 2 years to spend what bush did in 8 years. 1 trillion drilling in the gulf so brasil can do the drilling and we gave them 2 billion to do it. oh yea cant forget about all the money soros made on that.just happened to be odummys Biggest supporter. and you want to talk corporations bp is odummys biggest contributer look it up DONT BE BLINDED BY FACTS BUT LIBS DONT CARE ABOUT FACTS

"bush inherited a recession"

- What a freaking crock of crap!!! Making up your own facts again I see. I think you need to watch some micheal moore films. And what part about Obama including the war dollars in his budget and bush didn't include those dollars dont you understand?

Wow LexSucks theres part of your problem,,, You think Michael Moore is a creditable source. LOL

Actually, Republicans don't care about facts because the corporations that pay to have them re-elected only care about increasing their profit margins.

The fact that you are unable to even consider the opposite view point and can only paint facts that go against your obviously biased and un-informed viewpoint is not only sad, but shows your ignorance! The United States of America is doomed if your ideology continues to influence the direction and leadership of this country.

LexSucks, you're wrong yet again. The economy began to slow dramatically during the 3rd quarter of 2000, during Clinton's term. The economy continued to slide during 2001 before Bush policies could've affected the economy's momentum, then 9/11 happened which hurt the economy further. Yet another legacy of the Clinton administration. Those are the facts, Lex. To suggest the economy wasn't falling before Clinton left office is to ignore reality.

" The economy began to slow dramatically during the 3rd quarter of 2000, during Clinton's term"

- Right after he signed the repulican sponsered bill that lifted glass steagall. This country hasn't been the same since.

"Wow LexSucks theres part of your problem,,, You think Michael Moore is a creditable source. LOL"

- What has Micheal Moore said that isn't factual?

That's the best you can do. 2009? Bachmann has stated more falsehoods than that within the last month.

correction 1 trillion in stimulus that produced nothing . that line has nothing to do with brasil sorry.

Wasn't the stimulus passed before Obama got elected? Now you are retroactivly blaming Obama.

You are the one who needs educating.

"The stimulus package was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 29, 2008, and in a slightly different version by the U.S. Senate on February 7, 2008. The Senate version was then approved in the House the same day.[1] It was signed into law on February 13, 2008 by President Bush" - Wiki

I get deboosted for stating facts. It's now obvious that some people here dont care about facts.

Autospies2, when did the stimulus get passed again? LOL!!

The United States has about 1.4% of the worlds oil. Even if the gas tax were eliminated and oil production drastically increased, the United States would lack the ability to change the price of oil enough to make $2 a gallon possible.

perfect answer i think you should watch michael moore films lol yea thats a good source

What has Micheal Moore said that wasn't factual?

Michael Moore is the King of manipulating the facts. I've seen his so called "documentaries". His non-credability is surely not a secret.

No examples just like I thought. Next.

LexSucks, Don't give me this crap of not giving you non-credidable facts of Michael Moore. Here is a fact, YOU have bought into the manipulative ways of Michael Moore because that is what you want to hear. NEXT.

No. All I care about are facts. I don’t care where they come from. The fact that you dismiss anyone that has an opposing view tells me that your brain is programmed to only accept certain types of information from certain sources. Good luck.

Doesn't Moore claim that 200,000 Americans were dying of mad cow disease, that there is no Terrorist threat, and that bush had connections to bin ladin?

First off even if we could drill for oil in restricted areas we would not see some viability in extra gas for a good long time,perhaps 8 to 10 yrs.I agree with that green energy does have it's problems. Primarily that these problems involve infrastructure. EV cars are still too expensive,take too long to recharge and the batteries are prohivitevly expensive if they need to ever be replaced as it stands now.But in the 20's,30's and 40's of the twentieth century Gasoline stations were few and far between. It took a long while for infrastructure to ramp up. The same issue exsists today for green energy. That doesn't mean we should just forget about it.That would show a lack of forward thinking in my view.It used to be that you had to spend 5 grand for a not so big flat screen TV. Now you can buy one for the same if not cheaper then old non flat screen TV.Technology still moves forward.Items become cheaper and cheaper to produce.If you want to depend less on foreign oil the simpilest cheapest thing you can do right now is to buy a more fuel efficient car.There lots out there now that are getting 40 MPG on the highway.Anotherwords you save on gas by changing the way you live and what you drive!Hardly a hardship really. The've been doing it in Europe for yrs. Even 300 LB men can get themselves into Mini Cooper and they do. It really gets down to a change of thinking.

The EV infrastructure issues are a myth. EV vehicles promise to help the grid by sucking up excess energy at night and distributing it during the day, thus allowing power plants to be more efficient and lower peak loads during the day.

here are the facts on the clinton surplus Verifying this is as simple as accessing the U.S. Treasury (see note about this link below) website where the national debt is updated daily and a history of the debt since January 1993 can be obtained. Considering the government's fiscal year ends on the last day of September each year, and considering Clinton's budget proposal in 1993 took effect in October 1993 and concluded September 1994 (FY1994), here's the national debt at the end of each year of Clinton Budgets:

Fiscal
Year Year
Ending National Debt Deficit
FY1993 09/30/1993 $4.411488 trillion
FY1994 09/30/1994 $4.692749 trillion $281.26 billion
FY1995 09/29/1995 $4.973982 trillion $281.23 billion
FY1996 09/30/1996 $5.224810 trillion $250.83 billion
FY1997 09/30/1997 $5.413146 trillion $188.34 billion
FY1998 09/30/1998 $5.526193 trillion $113.05 billion
FY1999 09/30/1999 $5.656270 trillion $130.08 billion
FY2000 09/29/2000 $5.674178 trillion $17.91 billion
FY2001 09/28/2001 $5.807463 trillion $133.29 billion
As can clearly be seen, in no year did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit. Yes, the deficit was almost eliminated in FY2000 (ending in September 2000 with a deficit of "only" $17.9 billion), but it never reached zero--let alone a positive surplus number. And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration.
AGAIN FACTS ARE FACTS

Clinton is known to be the most popular president to date, but also the worst, but what can presidents do anyways? I think very little.

As opposed to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck? LOL!!

Who says that I get my news from John Stewart? Not me. You said that. This is beyond funny.

If you are so willing to sell your vote for the mere promise of $2/gallon gas, then your right to vote should not only be revoked, but you should be immediately deported and your American citizenship terminated!

if you step outside the us you will find green energy working LOL are you serious. do you mean like spain where one green job causes a loss of 2 regular private jobs? where unemployment is 20% and they are on the verge of bankruptcy? is that what you mean lex sux? there is plenty of oil lets just get it already. AUTOSPIES 2 they get there news from michael moore and john stewart because they are the only ones left mslsd has al sharpton on now lol

" there is plenty of oil lets just get it already."


- What happens when it runs out? Oh I forgot... It's never going to run out. You seem to think that gas is an unlimited resource? And name one single thing that John Stewart hasn't been factual about?

LexSucks let me help you out. First of all there is plenty of oil,shale natural gas etc. for over a 100 years. In the meantime human beings have a natural instinct to improve things and learn it's called curiosity. Just by man's nature, technology and the like will happen. I for one love new technologies. We don't need the Michael Moors and the Al Gors [which by the way are opportunists] to scare us into thinking we are doomed.

oil is an unlimited resource, algae derived fuels!

Lexsucks, the first rule when trying to get out of a hole is to stop digging. Citing Michael Moore and John Stewart does NOT help your cause. The fact that you consider these two to be legitimate sources of information is alarming. However, it does help explain your warped thinking.

Seriously, you must have the record for the most accumulated deboosts on Autospies.

Good point Joe.

MBCLS07, I only said Micheal Moore's name. You guys are the ones who mentioned John Stewart and are now attaching that to me. Nice! And who would you suggest I listen to?

FWIW I read stuff from Cristopher Hitchens, Ariana Huffington, Etc... What are your sources?

And de-boosts mean nothing when they are coming from a bunch of brainwashed americans. Which is what most of you people are.

just to let you know the big problems in the bush presidency (not them im a bush fan) started in 2007 when you guessed it pelosi and reid controlled things and just so you know the bush tax cuts created 750 billion extra tax dollars look it up

He was forced into signing it because the GOP wouldn't allow unemployment extentions if he didn't. The GOP held the country hostage. Anyone who earns less than $250k per year and considers themselves to be a republican is a fool.

No one noticed that the article starts off as "President Michelle Bachman"? She isnt president yet! haha

Nor will she ever be the President.

Now thats a scary thought!

From the way Agent009 reason, I think that will enough to buy his vote. His hatred for Obama is definitely enough to vote for any clown that shares his ideals.

Anyone (democrat, independent or republican) who can promise you a specific price of a commodity a few years out whose price is dictated by complex market factors is a cretin, and anyone who actually believes them is a complete moron.
What's the plan? I guess she can do it by telling China, India and other countries to stop using cars and forcing Opec and Hugo to stop manipulating supply, and then increasing more drilling in America (although all of American oil reserves are light years away from meeting domestic demand not to mention global demand), and then she'll force speculators to stop speculating..
She's simply saying things to get her in the news and thats great for marketing. If you want a republican look at Ron Paul and Romney. Perry would have been fine, but he's looking to beat up the conservative Fed Chairman who was originally hired by a republican president and Bachmann can't tell the difference between a famous actor (john Wayne) and a serial killer. Happy birthday Elvis!! Palin was neither bright nor articulate. Michelle is very articulate but the Jury is still out on whats happening upstairs. what a bunch of embarrassing clowns!

More political promises, this will never happen, regardless what party she is from there is no power from the traditional left or right, to change the oil prices you have to own the oil, even if she was voted in she would have to do what she was told, and why is everyone so against the Democrats? And why do people hate the Republicans? They are type cast as religious zealots , therefor they hate gays... come on, why do let your self be so brainwashed? Both parties do nothing for America exept promise impossible promises just to join the gravy train, Only an independent like Ron Paul could promise this, but he wouldn't.

Republicans do not want to regulate the CFTC aka Commodity Futures Trading Commission so Goldman Sachs, etc will continue to speculate the price of oil and any other commodity (on paper only) and make millions. Go Wall Street!!! Air bags like Michelle Bachmann are exploiting their baseless base. There will be no $2 a gallon gas !