“Gas prices” on The Daily Caller

Under questioning about the rising price of gasoline, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said “no one,” “not even Harry Potter” can lower the price at the pump. (more)

President Barack Obama is trying to portray himself as the hard-nosed protector of gasoline-buying consumers, and to frame the GOP’s free market policies as one cause of rising gasoline prices. (more)

As Ronald Reagan famously said, “There you go again.” (more)

Falling commodity prices punished materials and energy companies Wednesday, pushing Wall Street’s major stock indexes to a lower close. (more)

Rising gas prices and turmoil in the Middle East have once again thrust energy issues to the center of the presidential campaign. (more)

What a difference a few months can make. In January, gasoline hit $3.37 per gallon on average nationwide — its highest-ever price in that month. Fast-forward to March and the average is $3.86 per gallon, an increase of 49 cents over two months. A 25-cent increase in the price of gasoline translates to a $35 billion price tag for the broader economy. It’s important to note this figure only accounts for direct costs and doesn’t take into account increased costs facing U.S. businesses and consumers due to higher prices for transportation and other goods. It’s clear that when gas prices rise, consumers cut back in other areas and the whole economy suffers. (more)

With gas prices rising and President Obama’s approval rating falling, many liberal pundits have been quick to point out the illogic of blaming the commander in chief for something that most analysts believe is largely outside his control. It is unfair, they argue, for voters to hold the president accountable for high gas prices, just as it would be to blame him for an act of God such as — oh, I don’t know — a hurricane in New Orleans. President Obama can’t control the supply and demand of oil in the short term, they say, so he can’t control gas prices. (more)

The high cost of gasoline has become a political football in this fully ramped-up campaign season, yet with the price of gas expected to top $4.00 per gallon nationally in the coming months, American consumers deserve facts about gas prices and not more political rhetoric. Regrettably, both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers even though most people don’t really understand the various factors that influence gas prices. (more)

President Barack Obama is jumping aboard Air Force One on a two-day, four-state campaign to show he cares about the rising gasoline prices that are damaging his poll ratings. (more)

Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday, outlining the Obama administration’s efforts regarding oil prices. (more)

Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel Tuesday that he’d give himself top marks when asked to grade his policies’ effects on energy prices. Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked President Obama’s top energy official if he’d grade himself with an “A minus” on “controlling the cost of gasoline at the pump.” (more)

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama’s trip to an oil field in New Mexico is a typical presidential visit to “highlight” his “active” energy agenda. Carney also said there is no White House-supported bill or plan to address rising gas prices. (more)

President Barack Obama is about to launch a 5,000-mile, four-state, two-day trip on Air Force One to contain the political damage caused by high gas prices. (more)

President Barack Obama is seeking to leverage high gas prices into a grassroots movement pressuring Congress to end subsidies for big oil companies, a political strategy that has little to do with lowering prices. (more)

President Barack Obama repeatedly says there’s no magic wand to force down gas prices and salve the public’s increasing anger. (more)

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn told The Daily Caller that President Obama’s energy policy should ”keep all the green incentives, but let’s take care of our own oil.” (more)

An increasingly defensive President Barack Obama scheduled another energy speech for the same day that Vice President Joe Biden delivers the first of several hard-edged speeches in the Midwest. (more)

It’s easy for political junkies to forget that the majority of Americans don’t think the way they do. The average man on the street doesn’t spend his day obsessing over constitutional issues or arguments about the effect the Federal Reserve is having on housing prices. They don’t while away their hours dissecting foreign affairs, breaking down polling data or bickering about the Founding Fathers. It’s unfortunate, but most people are simply too busy living their lives to get involved with the day-to-day nuts and bolts of their government. (more)

Rising gas prices are threatening to smother the nascent economic recovery. Meanwhile, Washington remains locked in its endless dance, lacking the vision to see the glaringly obvious solution to America’s energy problems. Increasing supply with new exploration and pipelines is certainly part of the answer, as are curbs on speculation in energy markets. But the real solution is staring us in the face: cheap, abundant, domestically produced natural gas. (more)

In January, President Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline, which “would have carried as much as 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada, and the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota and Montana along a 1,661-mile path to Texas refineries.” Since that time, the price of gasoline has approached $5 a gallon in many parts of the country, yet Obama has criticized Republicans for trying to make the price of gas into an election-year issue. (more)