In the video below -- from the president's 2008 campaign -- he notes the then-high price for gas ($3.50 a gallon -- now nearing $5 a gallon); he says he doesn't take money from oil companies (he's raked it in from various oil companies, including BP...yes, the same company that vomited up billions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico); he says he won't take money from lobbyists (he didn't, but "he has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid"); he says he would "invest $150 million in alternative energy" (in Solyndra, the failed California solar manufacturing company, his administration lost more than half-a-billion dollars -- alone); he said he'd create 5 million jobs (more than 7 million were lost); and he promised we'd "free ourselves from foreign oil" (he effectively killed the Keystone oil pipeline project -- oil that would have come from our friendly neighbors to the north and created numerous jobs...instead, that oil might now be going to China.)"
Like they say, promises are worth the paper they're (not) written on...
