Faux News is the whore of Babylon. Bush said that he could not do anything about the rising gas prices his two wars and his hate for the Muslim nations caused, yet Faux News, who thinks Obama is a Muslim, thinks he can fix the gas prices, and Gingrich, who is a part of that whore of Babylon can do no more than his demigod Bush did.

Electric cars will bring those gas prices to a dead standstill and that is why those oil sucking, gas guzzlers, and anti-everything republicans are trying to kill the electric car again.

Not a word was said about Peak Oil in this acticle or the videos. We are already at the top. No matter how hard we try, we will NEVER be able to increase the production in the future:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

The real reason for the economic crash in 2008 was high energy prices. It’s happening again now. We have to use less. One solution is electric cars…

Come on people. Haven’t you figured out Fox News by now? Their agenda is funded by he top 1% of the rich people in the U.S., including those who run Big Oil. The agenda is to reduce the U.S. to two classes: The Rich and the Peons…no middle-class.

All the issues currently in play come down to that main agenda. Electric cars, middle-class education, the economy….are attacked by Fox in an effort to create negative public opinion toward the opposition of their agenda.

It amazes me that people buy into this crap and keep voting for the right wing party Republican candidates. In effect they are voting against their own well-being, dumb, really dumb!

Fox News starts with a lie just in its name. It then continues to lie about the cause of most of our problems. Personally I walk out of any business that has Fox News on their TVs. I know it does not do any real good, but I still feel better.

How has the GOP convinced people that gays are the cause of social evil? How can anybody vote for a GOP candidate that even questions Obama’s birth certificate? Just a bunch of Koch crap.

@Hayes. You have no idea who I am as the editor for HybridCars.com, or what my actual journalistic mindset is. But then, a quick anonymous retort is free and easy, isn’t it, and no one has a chance to fact check you, right? Wrong. You want to talk about journalistic integrity, suggesting we model on people you consider intellectually dishonest? I know you are incorrect on those baseless, contempt-filled, and off-topic attempts to smear.

For the record, we do not hold up Obama as a patron saint, but report facts where we see them. The duplicity by Fox on the contention that a president can control gas prices has been shown. And actually, Media Matters is the one that put together the real documentation. The record speaks for itself.

Green cars have an inherent reason for being – beyond any one party or person getting into or staying in office. The world’s dominant energy resources are finite, and I believe the actual reason for the push toward sustainable energy is to find answers for human civilization before it’s too late. We report these issues, and do not always say flattering things about the yet-small green car market. But it is happening based on need, not power-based agendas, though certainly they have muddied the waters.

Jeff: You really need to stick to reporting on Hybrid cars and stay out of politics!! If Obama was a leader he would call all the C.E.O’s of the big oil companies into the White House and give them a ultimatum either the price of gas goes down or their subsidies go by by. Why do they have to make more Profit than several countries have? This is a matter of national security! Or go talk to the shieks in Saudie Arabia and convince them to increase productivity. He is the one that stopped the keystone pipeline! He dictates policy on the off shore permits. He is the one that can tap the oil reserve. And if you get your facts from Media Matters ( Owned and operated by George Soros) you are not getting a very unbiased report. If you do not hold up Obama as a patron saint this report sure looks like you might hold him up as the Savior of the green car industry! Report on Cars and leave the left wing biased reporting to the N.Y. Times!! Remember B.O. stinks! Ask all the people out of work!!

@ Jeff Cobb,

+1

@ Old Grumpy & Hayes,

You two really need to get your facts straight. The CEO’s of the U.S. oil companies have little say as to what oil prices are. Their companies produce a fraction of the world’s oil.

U.S. report: Oil imports down, domestic production highest since 2003:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-la-pn-report-us-oil-imports-down-domestic-production-highest-since-2003-20120311,0,7880203.story?track=rss

“According to the study, the United States reduced net imports of crude oil last year by 10%, or 1 million barrels a day. America now imports 45% of its petroleum, down from 57% in 2008, and is on track to meet Obama’s long-term goal, the administration maintains.

Imports have fallen, in part, because the United States has increased domestic oil and gas production in recent years.

U.S. crude oil production increased by an estimated 120,000 barrels a day last year over 2010, the report says. Current production, about 5.6 million barrels a day, is the highest since 2003.

America has been the world’s largest producer of natural gas since 2009. Use of renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar, is still relatively small but has doubled since 2008.

“Sometimes prices increase as American drilling ramps up. That’s what has happened in the past three years. Since February 2009, U.S. oil production has increased 15 percent when seasonally adjusted. Prices in those three years went from $2.07 per gallon to $3.58. It was a case of drilling more and paying much more.

U.S. oil production is back to the same level it was in March 2003, when gas cost $2.10 per gallon when adjusted for inflation. But that’s not what prices are now.

That’s because oil is a global commodity and U.S. production has only a tiny influence on supply. Factors far beyond the control of a nation or a president dictate the price of gasoline.

When you put the inflation-adjusted price of gas on the same chart as U.S. oil production since 1976, the numbers sometimes go in the same direction, sometimes in opposite directions. If drilling for more oil meant lower prices, the lines on the chart would consistently go in opposite directions. A basic statistical measure of correlation found no link between the two, and outside statistical experts confirmed those calculations.

Supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline say it would bring 25 million barrels of oil to the United States a month. That’s the same increase in U.S. production that occurred between February and November last year. Monthly gas prices went up a dime a gallon in that time.”

I guess Obama is working hard at shutting down domestic production…oh wait “increase in production” equals good right? Now explain to me how this increase in production hasn’t curbed prices at the pump? Oh that’s right. You can’t.

Incidentally, if we say

- “What the President can do is so small that he can’t affect fuel prices, so he doesn’t matter.”

then we should also say

- “However much we try to reduce CO2 emissions in the US, it doesn’t matter because China is belching out more CO2 every day.”

Do we use this argument only when it suits us?

Jeff, I appreciate your comments. Please remember

There are diplomatic and non-diplomatic ways of saying the same thing. An editor should be diplomatic.

There is a difference between being assertive and agggressive.

Other people who read this blog (such as myself) may not agree with everything you write, and may agree with some points that other outlets (even Fox News) has. They are certainly not always correct.
But in my view, most media outlets are “left of center,” so some of Fox’s views are less “radical” than you might think.

We should be equally aware of left-leaning writers being nasty as well as right-leaning.

What you are suggesting about the government controlling prices is the definition of socialism. If you want to ALLOW the govt. to help prices the let them raise CAFE mileage and mandate more public transit. This would have a lot more positive effect on poor and middle class household budgets.

hotrod-
RE: A simple recognition that this information came from Media Matters would have been useful. Sources are important these days.

The article says: “Contrast this with 2008, when gas prices were around $4 per gallon and you get a rather different message, dare we say credible reporting from Fox in some cases, as this medley compiled by Media Matters, and noted by TreeHugger“

If the O’ministration wanted to increase the price of gas at the pump, they could’ve had Congress pass a supplemental gas tax. Instead, they pursued policies that raised the price of oil for everyone, including very loose federal money supply, which has our economy the ropes. Very bad policy decisions to limit new oil exploration, stop the Keystone pipeline, and reduce our consumption by putting people out of work. This is not a policy a President who wants to be re-elected will take credit for.

“Advanced-tech transportation is now at the stage where many are talking about an “all of the above” approach because there is no one “magic bullet” replacement – at least not yet, though there’s always (real) hope, isn’t there?”

Moving away from politics for a moment (don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll be back…)

Is one “magic bullet” replacement really the goal – or even desirable? Isn’t the core of the problem with our current situation that we’re extremely dependent on the last “magic bullet”? The main driver for “all of the above” (which, to sprinkle in a little politics, was the Bush energy policy since 2001 and what President Obama specifically ran against in 2008) is that the more sources we have commercially available, the more resilient we are in the face of disruption of any one source.