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Despite Romney's assertions, economists say there's not much a president of either party could do about gasoline prices. The current increases at the pump have been driven by fears of a war with oil-rich Iran and by higher demand in the U.S. as well as in China, India and other growing nations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/10/gas-prices-obama-strikes-_n_1336587.html
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Except for Ron Paul, the rest of the GOP wannabes, throughout this primary season, has been tossing around war rhetoric about how they would bomb Iran into the stone age to stop their nuclear program and then they turn around and blame Obama when the world price of oil goes up due to the fear of war in the Middle East.