I would suggest that if gas prices start to increase Obama will get on his white charger and gallop over to the NYT and WaPo and announce that he is turning on the lights at a previously closed refinery in St. Croix that will avoid this crisis.
He will then announce that the facility had been closed by greedy republicans and big oil in an effort to manipulate the price of gas for their personal gain.
There are now maybe a 100 people who know the St Croix plant may close because of the EPA, etc. The average schlubb has no idea and will buy into whatever O tells them. The rebuttal from big oil and the GOP wil appear 15 days later on page 53 on a late Friday edition and it will be a left hand page at that.
There is so much stuff like this going on in every Fed department and at all levels of this administration it is impossible to know the scope of the damage being done by Obama and friends that we simply don’t know about.
