{"id":30401,"date":"2012-09-12T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30401"},"modified":"2012-09-12T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:46:11","slug":"mission-half-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30401","title":{"rendered":"Mission Half Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, Candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2012\/03\/13\/more-fun-with-gas-prices-chu-repents\/\">Obama\u2019s pick for Energy Czar, Steven Chu, said<\/a>: \u201cSomehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 30, 2008, gas prices were $4.00 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5M1WlV7vafk\">Candidate Obama said<\/a>: \u201cI think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 20, 2009, when President-Elect Obama took office, the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.marketwatch.com\/2009-01-20\/news\/30893692_1_gasoline-prices-gallon-marketwatch\">price of gas was down to $1.84 a gallon<\/a>. Going backwards, for him.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in St. Paul, gas is back up to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=30402\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30402 alignleft\" title=\"GAS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GAS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So have we achieved Secretary Chu and Candidate Obama\u2019s goal?<\/p>\n<p>Gas Prices in Europe are <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/shocking-gas-prices-globe\/story?id=13349235\">in the $9.00 per gallon range<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No, we have not achieved the President\u2019s goals. We\u2019re only half-way there.<\/p>\n<p>At the convention, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/obama-in-democratic-convention-speech-asks-for-more-time.html?pagewanted=all\">President Obama asked for more time<\/a> to accomplish his goals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a long four years.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dying to see what he does with natural gas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: In 2008, Candidate Obama\u2019s pick for Energy Czar, Steven Chu, said: \u201cSomehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.\u201d On June 30, 2008, gas prices were $4.00 and Candidate Obama said: \u201cI think that I would have preferred a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30403,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401\/revisions\/30403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}