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Chu: DOE working to wean U.S. off oil, not lower prices
Politico ^ | 2/28/2012 | By ALEX GUILLEN

Posted on 02/29/2012 4:30:37 AM PST by tobyhill

The Energy Department isn’t working to lower gasoline prices directly, Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker scolded him for his now-infamous 2008 comment that gas prices in the U.S. should be as high as in Europe.

Instead, DOE is working to promote alternatives such as biofuels and electric vehicles, Chu told House appropriators during a hearing on DOE’s budget.

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.”

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To: tobyhill

“Chu: DOE working to wean U.S. off oil, not lower prices”

Another government idiot who knows absolutely nothing about Oil or the petrochemical industry and it’s impact on our modern way of life.

Another statement “Our addiction to oil” is also an illustration of a know nothing president.

We are carbon based life forms living on a carbon based planet using carbon based energy that is responsible for our modern way of life and has brought that way of life to the most people in world history.


61 posted on 02/29/2012 7:23:48 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
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To: tobyhill

Sire, the peasants have no gasoline. Well, then, let ‘em eat algae.


62 posted on 02/29/2012 7:32:14 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: tobyhill

High energy prices: you’ll get used to them.

Now go pay your taxes - your government is broke. :)


63 posted on 02/29/2012 8:21:47 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: tobyhill

The Energy Department isn’t working to lower gasoline prices directly, Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker scolded him for his now-infamous 2008 comment that gas prices in the U.S. should be as high as in Europe.

In the meantime while waiting for this pie in the sky outlook to happen those who view oil products as bad can live their example by walking to places they need to go, heat their homes with sunlight, pedal drive to generate electrical, etc. in the meantime and until they start doing these things as a shining example STFU.,


64 posted on 02/29/2012 8:23:11 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: tobyhill

Oil is the most efficient source of energy available at
present. Economic logic requires it’s continued use!


65 posted on 02/29/2012 8:39:31 AM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: All

The words of Steven Chu are getting out to the masses.
Obama owns the high gas prices we see in the country today.


66 posted on 02/29/2012 8:41:42 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: All

On behalf of the eventual GOP nominee, I would like to thank this dumbass for doubling down on his desire to increase prices at the pump.


67 posted on 02/29/2012 8:50:34 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: tobyhill

Since the high gas prices are the fault of Bush/Congressional Republicans/Big Oil, when is Chu going to thank them, on behalf of Obama, for advancing the Administration’s alternate fuel agenda?


68 posted on 02/29/2012 10:01:56 AM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: zzeeman

Fuk Chu and his little dog too.


69 posted on 02/29/2012 10:55:29 AM PST by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: Gasshog

Fuk Chu and the little 10-speed bike he rode in on!


70 posted on 02/29/2012 11:16:22 AM PST by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: Happy Rain
Going to be great when we lose wars because our tanks, ships and planes ran out of algae.

*******

Presidential election day Nov. 2012: Before voters go to their voting sites, many of them will first stop at the gas station to buy some gas.

If the gas price is $5 or more a gallon at the pump that day, I say that a lot of voters will be angry as they leave the gas station, and they may take out their anger and frustration in the voting booth and vote against Obama.

71 posted on 02/29/2012 11:28:42 AM PST by john mirse
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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72 posted on 02/29/2012 5:11:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: tobyhill

Looks like Obama’s “Chu-Chu Train” has gone around the deep bend.


73 posted on 03/02/2012 8:43:32 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Send Obama back to the ghetto, November 6th.)
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To: blackdog
If there is any pushing to be done and of who to push, perhaps it should begin in Washington with a shove into the Potomac.

Dang, that would be water pollution but still, it would be the solution. I know many, many times, I've posted about my grandfather being on Omaha Beach fighting people with the same ideology that we have in D.C. now. We need to re-enact the Normandy Invasion, right on the Potomac.
74 posted on 03/02/2012 8:50:33 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Send Obama back to the ghetto, November 6th.)
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To: tobyhill

Silly bastard hasn’t got anything to replace oil with & is wondering why people want to hang his ignorant a$$ from the nearest tree or street light with a piano wire noose. Only a Phd. from a major University could be that stupid.


75 posted on 03/03/2012 7:26:57 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

That would require the Republican party elites/leadership to actually have a spine & the will to do something other than suck DONKEY DICK.


76 posted on 03/06/2012 11:12:27 AM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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MADAM CHU

Mercedes
personal car
DR. CHU

"I have a bicycle
but no car"

?
DR. CHU

Cadillac
US Taxpayer

77 posted on 03/23/2012 1:28:21 AM PDT by devolve (- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - you can*t do that with a WebTV - - - - - - - - - - - -)
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