Race for the White House - Gas Prices

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Article first published as The Price of Gas - Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? on Technorati.

(Credit: AP/Butch Dill) 

Lately the Republicans are arguing that gas

Has grown more expensive 'cause Obama didn't pass

Pipeline legislation that most Democrats oppose

Where did they learn Economics do you folks suppose?

Couldn't have been Harvard, and not Wharton, or they'd know

Shale oil down from Canada won't make the prices low.

Not the kind - not fast enough - to show up at the pump.

Nope, that's not the reason that the prices seemed to jump.

Prices have been climbing due to tensions with Iran

And because the speculators figure they should plan

Just in case Israelis try and bomb nuclear plants;

Finally sick and tired of the Ayatollah's rants.

Plus, there's the refineries; we do not have enough.

People blame the President when lots of other stuff

Is the reason for the pain we've all begun to feel;

But, $2 bucks a gallon Speaker Gingrich? Please. Get real.