Ironically gas prices will also rise as the economy takes off. Increased demand over supply. As manufacturing goes up there is an increase in the need for more energy. As people go back to work they are driving more. Economics 101, but they just don't get that free market concept!

@1: Though rising fuel economies have been reducing US demand for gasoline, even as the economy has started to recover. Thus rising fuel prices have less impact, as more drivers are getting more miles per gallon.

That cycle's virtuous, not vicious. Except for Mitt, of course.

Paul Ryan is doing all he can to sabotage the recovery.

Sounds like we're headed towards the good old days of Bush...back before 2006 when the Democrats came in and crashed the economy.

WARNING: TROLL BAIT @5

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Of course! That's why the mortgage firm I worked for right up until the first quarter of 2006 went under! Because they were anticipating a Democratic sweep of congress that fall and the subsequent tanking of the economy at their hands! It's all so clear now...

Let's keep some perspective on this. The jobs being created are paying lower wages and fewer hours than they were a few years ago. And this has been the trend for nearly a generation.

Yeah, it's "good" news but it isn't a fundamental shift in the long term economic outlook for the US. The trend is every recovery produces jobs that pay less than the recovery before it. It's all part of the joy of trickle down economics.

Politically it's great news for Obama but for people who have to work and don't hang out with the 1% like ALL of our political leaders so...it's nice but that's about it. Your're still going to get fucked with a chainsaw in the end.

You forget for the moment Godly, that rising fuel prices are affecting everything we buy that is trucked in. Scant fuel economy for diesel big rigs.

OMG, now he's become suzerain and is not just Goldy, but Godly.

FACT: The US is an energy exporter, INCLUDING IN OIL.

Stick that in your out of date wiki and smoke it.

@10: http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/image…
Do you even think about this shit before spewing it onto the Interbutts?