{"id":16291,"date":"2012-03-13T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-13T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:41:50","slug":"chu_retracts_desire_for_higher_gas_prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/13\/chu_retracts_desire_for_higher_gas_prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Chu Retracts Desire for Higher Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Steven Chu.  Remember him, the energy secretary, &#8220;the Nobel prize-winning&#8221; energy secretary who appeared before a congressional committee and said that he wasn\u2019t interested in gasoline prices coming down?  Instead, he\u2019s interested in getting us off of <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16287\">oil,<\/a> which is not possible.  It is not going to happen.  There\u2019s nothing else to use.  It won\u2019t happen.  It\u2019s pie-in-the-sky dreaming.  There\u2019s no way we can get off oil. And if this administration tries to take us off of oil we\u2019re going to be plunged into a recession, and we\u2019re gonna be moving backwards to the seventh century and we\u2019re gonna looking to Afghanistan. It will never happen, folks.  The engine of freedom is fueled by oil, the free flow of oil at market prices. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_60278\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChuGasPrices2.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Anyway, Steven Chu\u2019s back, and he renounced his previously stated desire to see gas prices rise to match European levels. He recently said that he didn\u2019t care about gas prices coming down.  He thought they should be as high as they are in Europe because of fairness (we need to find out what it\u2019s like to live in the rest of the world) and conservation.  He was more interested in getting us off oil.  Well, he told the Senate today that he wants gasoline prices to fall, now, for the sake of the economy.  So somebody took him to the woodshed.  Probably a pollster from the New York Times called the White House and said, &#8220;Hey, look, we did the best we could with these numbers, but it\u2019s bad. And Chu is not helping it by telling everybody he wants gas prices to go up and doesn\u2019t care about them coming down.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_60272\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChuGasPrices.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So in 2008, Chu said, &#8220;Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.&#8221;  That\u2019s what he said in 2008.  He was reminded of that comment today during his congressional testimony, and he backed away from it. &#8220;I no longer share that view,&#8221; said Chu to Senator Mike Lee, Republican, Utah.  Chu said, &#8220;When I became Secretary of Energy, I represented the United States government, and I think right now in this economic very slow return these prices could very well affect the comeback of our economy.&#8221; It sounds like he\u2019s not sure that gasoline prices might have a deleterious effect on the economy. <\/p>\n<p>So Chu is now saying his previous statements are no longer operational.  That\u2019s how the Democrats characterize their gaffes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Steven Chu. Remember him, the energy secretary, &#8220;the Nobel prize-winning&#8221; energy secretary who appeared before a congressional committee and said that he wasn\u2019t interested in gasoline prices coming down? Instead, he\u2019s interested in getting us off of oil, which is not possible. It is not going to happen. There\u2019s nothing else to use. 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