How is it that republican candidates like Mitt Romney are considered out of touch with the common folk, when we have people like Barack Obama and his apparatchik Secretary Chu of the Department of Energy wanting to raise the price of gasoline to $8.00 a gallon? I ask who in the hell is the elitist? Here is an exchange between Chu and Congressman Alan Nunnelee:But Americans need relief now, Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss.) said — not high gasoline prices that could eventually push them to alternatives.
“I can’t look at motivations. I have to look at results. And under this administration the price of gasoline has doubled,” Nunnelee told Chu.
“The people of north Mississippi can’t be here, so I have to be here and be their voice for them,” Nunnelee added. “I have to tell you that $8 a gallon gasoline makes them afraid. It’s a cruel tax on the people of north Mississippi as they try to go back and forth to work. It’s a cloud hanging over economic development and job creation.”
Chu expressed sympathy but said his department is working to lower energy prices in the long term.
“We agree there is great suffering when the price of gasoline increases in the United States, and so we are very concerned about this,” said Chu, speaking to the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee. “As I have repeatedly said, in the Department of Energy, what we’re trying to do is diversify our energy supply for transportation so that we have cost-effective means.”
It makes all the difference in the world when Democrats feel our pain, while inflicting it. The inquisitor's smile and assurances are more comforting while they turn the crank, and your limbs pop and crack under pressure of the rack.
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