http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46689167/ns/us_news-christian_science_monitor/t/how-much-would-keystone-pipeline-help-us-consumers/

http://www.nyse.tv/crude-oil-price-history.htm

if you cant find the incosistency with crude oil prices and gas at the pump over the last eight years, then my point is lost, (late 2009 they halfed, but we didnt see that happen at the pump)

and your a man who cries for less govt spending and fair blah blah blah but

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/29/senate-republicans-block-bill-to-end-oil-subsidies/

do you support the subsidy program?

and keystone would not have dropped prices, when none of the final product would be sold in america or guaranteed to america, but would have used our currently overburdened refinerys, which would only promise to raise prices more.

a commercial of lies perhaps? who woulda thunk it

"with this said, why is it obamas fault gas prices have risen?"

Because prices are based on futures. When people know prices are going to go up, they buy now. If prices were going to go down, they'd sell now to cut their losses. (The price change is more immediate in either case--It doesn't inherently raise prices that speculators effect the market.)

Obama bans drilling everywhere he can. As world demand increases and Obama does all he can to keep production as low as he can, obviously he contributes to high prices.

"he is to blame for inflation too right?"

Inflation is not a magical beast. Inflation is what happens when the fed prints massive amounts of money to buy government debt. Obama has contributed to inflation by spending at a rate nobody has ever spent before, which the fed picks up the printing to keep up with. Obama has contributed to inflation with his massive stimulus bills.

"lets blame the stock market on him aswell why not"

The stock market is an awesome thing. But no, he doesn't get credit for it. He didn't create it. You sound a little confused.

Yup. And the Iranian crisis hurts us more because we choose not to drill nearly as much as we could. We choose to be so dependent upon world oil producers for what we could produce most of ourselves.

Are adverts like that what debate has reduced to? Superficial, potentially unrelated one line sentences strung one after the other into 30 seconds. I can see the power in them in terms of brainwashing propaganda, but do they really raise any valid points, present any logical arguments or add anything to a credible discussion? Seems like politics for people without any notable attention span or any notion of critical thinking. Just swallow the message then move along.

The average viewer is barely above retarded, and a "better" ad for more intelligent people would be a bad ad for the majority of viewers. I have plenty of comments that would make the ad much, much better for an intelligent, informed viewer. But the ad isn't and probably shouldn't be designed in such a way.

I seriously hate marketing because it generally entails catering a message to morons.