No political party holds the patent on absolute brain-dead goofiness. Michele offers us two-dollar gasoline, details not quite worked out yet.
In 1972, candidate George McGovern offered every citizen of the Republic $1,000 cash money, details not quite worked out. 'course, George had an excuse. Backing Tom Eagleton 1,000 per cent ate up a lot of his time.
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President Bachmann could knock 18.4 cents off the price of a gallon of gas, tops.
Maybe she plans to pray away the excess pay. :)
The fact is that $2.00 gas is easily obtainable.
The first thing she can do is reinstate all of the various rules instituted by the Repubs and Demos in summer/fall of 2008 that caused the price of oil to fall and was then changed by Obama in February of 2009. Since then oil prices have been rising.
"Facing gas prices near $4 a gallon and a pivotal national election, congressional Democrats allowed a ban on offshore drilling to lapse in September
But times change, and on Tuesday, the Obama administration - with gas prices roughly half what they were and many Democrats’ having been swept into office - blocked offshore drilling plans put in place at the last minute by the Bush administration, including plans to open the national outer continental shelf for drilling.
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar also announced last week that his agency would block drilling on public lands in Utah, criticizing the Bush administration for releasing its offshore drilling plan just days before leaving office."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/drilling-ban-revisited/
She can also work with Congress to pass a law that says that commodity traders can trade ONLY if they have the ability to accept the results of that trade.
She can also announce a Manhattan project to develop hydrogen fuel cells, nuclear power for electricity generation and "drill baby drill" as our national energy policy.
I think that would get the ball rolling.
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