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Obama to address gas prices, pitch energy policy

• By JIM KUHNHENN
 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is confronting Americans' anxiety over rising gasoline prices by drawing attention to his energy policies and taking credit for rising oil and gas production, a greater mix of energy sources and decreased consumption.

Obama is heading to Florida on Thursday to promote an energy strategy that the administration says will reduce dependence on foreign oil in the long term. But Obama's pitch will also have a subtext: that the federal government can do little to halt the current rise in gasoline prices.

Obama will speak at the University of Miami and tour the school's Industrial Assessment Center, which trains students as industrial energy-efficiency experts. The program is one of 24 across the country.

White House advisers believe Obama needs to address the recent spike in gasoline prices, even though they see it as a cyclical occurrence. The current $3.58 per gallon is the highest price at the pump ever for this time of year.

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Everyone knew this was going to happen long before the day that it did occur. Obama knew the prices would go up when he ordered sactions against Iran selling its oil on the world market. He knew that other oil needing countries would put a demand on oil from other nations allowed to sell their oil on the market causing higher prices here in the states. If this hurts the public in their pocket book, let Obama feel his foolishness come election day 2012. Talk about this everywhere you can where people are discussing whom to vote for. Ron Paul 2012



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