The $4 Per Gallon Obama? FactCheckers Say "No" on Palin FB Page

Here’s what Sarah Palin said on her Facebook page:

Is it really any surprise that oil and gas prices are surging toward the record highs we saw in 2008 just prior to the economic collapse? Despite the President’s strange assertions in his press conference last week, his Administration is not a passive observer to the trends that have inflated oil prices to dangerous levels. His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security.

The evidence of the President’s anti-drilling mentality and his culpability in the high gas prices hurting Americans is there for all to see.

Click here to see the rest of her faulty reasoning….

The sweet news is that on her FB page, beyond all the crazy true believers like this:

There were several toward the end that had to be critical thinking ‘ringers’ capable of connecting the logic dots:

So for all of you on our side, it’s important to scan these places occasionally, and nip in and leave a crumb of ‘reason’ (just so the other side knows it when the see it).

Here’s what the critical thinkers had been reading:

This is from FactCheck.com/Annenberg School of Public Policy -

Conflicting, false and misleading statements on oil production and gasoline prices have become the currency of politicians lately, as oil tops $100 per barrel and gasoline hovers near $4 per gallon. Among some of the claims that got our attention:

• Top Republicans blame President Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling for rising gasoline prices. The moratorium delayed drilling of some new wells, but did not affect the output of wells already in production. A projected drop in total domestic oil production this year should amount to six-tenths of 1 percent of all U.S. consumption of liquid fuels. A Wall Street oil analyst told us the moratorium has had “zero” effect on prices.

• Obama said domestic oil production last year was its highest since 2003. That’s true — but U.S. oil production is projected to drop this year.

• Rep. Kevin McCarthy said “under this administration our output has gone down 13 percent.” McCarthy is wrong — U.S. oil production was up in 2009 and 2010, and is projected to decline only 2 percent this year.

• Sarah Palin said Obama is “allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports” from unstable countries. But there has been a decline — not an increase — in total oil imports from Middle Eastern and African countries, as well as countries identified by the State Department as “dangerous or unstable,” since Obama took office.

Semper Vigilans! Readers! Ain’t social networking grand!

-maven