Obama blames gas prices for poll numbers
President Barack Obama is pointing to high gasoline prices for his sagging poll numbers.$8 gas and the green agenda :: Jeff Jacoby
"My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people," Obama said at a Los Angeles fundraiser Thursday night.
TESTIFYING BEFORE the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about something he said in September. "Somehow," the Nobel laureate had told The Wall Street Journal, "we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time, gasoline in Europe was going for around $8 a gallon. Did the secretary, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns inquired, still want to see US gas prices rise that high?
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