Remember back when gasoline was $4 a gallon?

No, not now, but the first time. Back in 2006? Remember?

The likes of Harry Reid and our little darling Nancy Pelosi were telling us how much better things would be when they were in charge.

Well....guess what. They were in charge for four years, during which time we saw gas prices rise to $4 a gallon in 2008. And now that their guy is in the white house? We are looking at potentially $5 a gallon or more.

And what does our illustrious leader have to say about it?

Pitching the promise of energy independence, President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday that it's going to be tough to transition from America's oil-dependent economy and acknowledged there's little he can do to lower gas prices over the short term.

"I'm just going to be honest with you. There's not much we can do next week or two weeks from now," the president told workers at a wind turbine plant. It's a theme Obama's struck before as he tries to show voters he's attuned to a top economic concern with gas prices pushing toward $4 a gallon.

Obama said he wants to move toward "a future where America is less dependent on foreign oil, more reliant on clean energy produced by workers like you." That will happen by reducing oil imports, tapping domestic energy sources and shifting the nation to renewable and less polluting sources of energy, such as wind, the president says. He has set a goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025.

But the president said it won't happen overnight and if any politician says it's easy, "they're not telling the truth."

"Gas prices? They're going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes, and that's going to take a couple of years to have serious effect," Obama said.

Obama pushes clean energy, says he can do little to affect gas prices in the short term
So it seems two points are being made. First? He is being honest with us. I don't know about everyone else? But that gives me the warm and fuzzies. Second? The president's only offering of hope? Alternative energy sources.

Remember those words in three months when inflation has gone hyper. remember those words come Labor Day and they roll up the beaches across America because no one came.

Barack Obama is steering the ship of state directly into an iceberg at full speed. And the media is allowing him to get away with it..