by Bruce Tyson

Created on: February 29, 2012

Gas prices have risen 90 percent since Obama entered the White House. Experts say that the current surge in prices will cause so much economic pain that countless Americans will face economic ruin.

In 2008, Democrat presidential candidate Obama said that $4 gas prices were a sign of Washington’s (i.e. George Bush and the Republican’s) failure. In 2012, from his perch in the White House, Obama now sees $5 and $6 gasoline as a sign of success. According to

Investor’s Business Daily, Obama realizes that his commitment to higher gasoline prices may cost him some political points.

Normally, Americans would expect gas prices to fall in an election year. This time is different. Gas prices now soar with the eagles as Americans try to find ways to cope. Working Americans, the poor and the unemployed must brace themselves for the highest prices the United States has ever seen. All the while, the largest oil reserves in the world lie untapped below U.S. lands.

Part of the Obama Plan

Although some pundits seem baffled as to why Obama has done nothing to ease the pain at the pump that now threatens to devastate workers on every rung of the economic ladder, others have seen this coming for a long time. In fact, the Heritage Foundation recently reminded America that both Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and Obama have openly advocated higher gas prices, even before the presidential election of 2008.

In December, 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chu stated his and Obama's energy goal. He said they want to find ways to increase U.S. gas prices so they reflect European gas prices. Gas prices in Europe at the time were more than triple U.S. gas prices.

A YouTube video from Obama's 2008 campaign shows his supporters cheering the notion of high gasoline prices.

Knowing the Obama commitment to high gas prices, Americans still elected the Democrat to office, so that could mean that Americans actually wanted high gas prices. If so, where does that leave employed Americans who can no longer afford to buy gas to get to their jobs?

Obama Keeping Promises

Recent testimony On February 28, 2012, Energy Secretary Chu affirmed to Congress that the Obama regime does not see lower gasoline prices as a goal. Instead, Chu chortled a response to Representative Alan Nunnelee of Mississippi, saying that both Chu and Obama want to cut consumption (presumably via unaffordable gas prices).

Americans have been told to expect $5 gasoline as commonplace. If the Obama regime continues

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