From Harper’s Index

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), novelist and essayist

The Republicans equate the Carter Administration with long gas lines and rising gas prices. According to Harper’s Index:

• Percentage change in the average monthly price of oil during the Carter Administration: +85
• Percentage change during the presidency of George W. Bush, before Hurricane Katrina hit: +107
  
  This one is incredible to me. Don’t tell me the administration didn’t purposely ignore the pleas for help in New Orleans:
• Days after Katrina kit that Dick Cheney’s office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines: 1
  
  I believe in the long run the Iraq War will prove worse than the Vietnam War because of the lack of preparation. We may not lose as many soldiers thankfully, but the ramifications will be longer lasting:
• Number of journalists killed in Vietnam during twenty years of war there: 63
• Number killed in Iraq since March 2003: 71
  
  How I hope this is remembered come the 2006 mid-term elections:
• Years after the start of the Vietnam War that a majority of Americans first said it was a mistake: 3 1/2
• Years after the start of the Iraq War that a majority said this: 1 ¼
  
  Next time you go to buy something remember this:
• Number of consecutive years that the U.S. median income has failed to increase: 5