{"id":12782,"date":"2012-01-24T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12782"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:54:28","slug":"oil-prices-up-161-since-final-week-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12782\/oil-prices-up-161-since-final-week-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Up 161% Since Final Week of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During tonight&#8217;s State of the Union speech, Barack Obama will trot out his usual energy platitudes, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/14\/friday-night-doc-dump-wh-knew-before-solyndra-workers-flew\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solyndra<\/a> now excepted.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of Obama&#8217;s rhetoric, however, the real-world facts speak perfectly clearly.\u00a0 Since the final week of 2008, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.thomsonreuters.com\/datastream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomson Reuters Datastream<\/a>, the price per barrel of crude oil has increased an astounding 161%.\u00a0 That year, Obama famously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D912VD200&amp;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a> that his election would mark the date on which Earth began to heal, the seas stopped rising and magic unicorns began delivering free In &#8216;n&#8217; Out burgers to those of us on the east coast.\u00a0 Instead, we&#8217;ve seen deficits rising, unemployment rising and oil prices rising.\u00a0 As they say in Latin, &#8220;res ipsa loquitur&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;the fact speaks for itself.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Namely, that Obama&#8217;s grandiosity and his actual performance maintain an inverse relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During tonight&#8217;s State of the Union speech, Barack Obama will trot out his usual energy platitudes, Solyndra now excepted. Regardless of Obama&#8217;s rhetoric, however, the real-world facts speak perfectly clearly.\u00a0 Since the final week of 2008, according to the Thomson Reuters Datastream, the price per barrel of crude oil has increased an astounding 161%.\u00a0 That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,24,3303,784],"class_list":["post-12782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-obama","tag-oil-price","tag-state-of-the-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12785,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions\/12785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}