About those low gas prices when Obama took office

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17. 'wrecked the economy" is putting it mildly, imo. The international

credit markets had completely frozen up, i.e., banks were not even lending to one another because they could not trust one another's balance sheets. I remember wondering during those days whether the entire machine was just going to grind to a halt and cities start going feral, as food supplies dried up. (Average American city has something like a 7-day food supply.) Wife and I actually started discussing evacuation plans from Los Angeles if we detected any panic buying or other signs of approaching cataclysm. It did not come to pass, but the world was teetering on the brink of complete and utter collapse of supply and demand.

That's what Obama inherited.