This is sickening. It is nothing but a personal agenda by Chu fostered by obastard. Nothing but treachery, fraud and self-interest... if you dig down you will most likely find direct benefit to Chu and obsstard throughout the whole scam.
“But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied. “We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.”
This agenda by the administration is driven by ideology not necessity. Furthermore, the alternatives have been shown to be uneconomic. The economic ignorance of this administration is further illustrated by their insistence that replacement of a superior economic alternative by one that is vastly more expensive and raises the cost of virtually everything somehow makes the U.S. more competitive? Horseshit.
We have never found it expedient to replace an existing product without good economic or technical reasons... there are no such reasons to force abandoning oil. The only reason this administration has is unavowed... control and a econut agenda and feathering their own wealth.
Apparently they have not heard that for every dollar gas goes up, our GDP goes down by 1.3%. I think that was the number I heard, it could have been 1.6.
So.... given that our GDP is growing by what 1.3% that this might be a wee little problem...
Not for those idiots anyway. Why should they care? They have their cushy government jobs and Oblidiot has SS service and chauffeurs for the rest of his life. They are the one percent, and it is THEY who do not care.