The problem with the internet for politicians is that anyone with half a brain and a working computer can look up all the statements made by that politician and see where there are contradictions. It's not easy to be in politics in the age of the internet.
President Obama has tripped over his tongue with his recent comments on rising gasoline prices in America. Power Line reported yesterday on the recent contradiction.
The article reports on the President's asking world oil producers to increase their output:
"They need to increase supplies," Obama told CBS affiliate WTKR in Hampton Roads, Virginia. "We are in a lot of conversations with major oil producers like Saudi Arabia."
This is a truly amazing statement by President Obama. I agree with the essence of the statement--increased production will help lower cost--it's his actions in domestic policy that contradict that statement that I don't agree with.
The article reminds us:
"President Obama named Steven Chu his Secretary of Energy just three months after Chu told the Wall Street Journal in a high-profile interview that "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Presumably Obama put Chu in charge of energy policy because he shared Chu's goal of driving American gas prices far above their then-current level. The policies that Obama, Chu and Obama's EPA have subsequently followed confirm that higher energy prices was their objective. Now, confronted with the political fallout from his policies and facing rejection at the polls in 2012, Obama is flailing helplessly to re-cast himself as an advocate for American consumers. But he still is not willing to do the one thing that is within his power and that will bring down energy costs: turn loose America's vast energy resources for development."
Increase supply lowers cost. Now that the President has admitted this, it's time he put that policy in practice domestically.
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