The Obama administration’s energy policy chief on Tuesday gave himself an A for controlling gas prices that have reached a record high at pumps across the country, drawing criticism and even chortles from Washington Republicans.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the comment during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in which he was asked whether he was still doing A-minus work.
“Well, the tools we have at our disposal are limited, but I would say I would give myself a little higher,” he told committee Chairman Darrell Issa. “Since I became secretary of energy, I’ve been doing everything I can to get long-term solutions.”
Issa, a California Republican, said later that the administration’s “DOE is DOA.”
The average price of regular gas is now $3.87 a gallon, a record high for March and more than double the $1.85 a gallon price when Obama took office in January 2009, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.
The price for a gallon of regular gas has reached $4.35 a gallon in California.
The issue of U.S. energy policy and “prices at the pump” have emerged as an election issue, and top GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have used campaign stops to hammer the issues.On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee ridiculed Chu’s assessment of his and the administration’s efforts.
Typical bureaucrat, very similar tomembers of Congress who should be getting paycuts and no more retirement for the crappy job we have been letting them get away with for far too many years!
Of course he will give himself high marks for gas prices! Controlling them? Of course he is ‘controlling’ them….the price is surging up, up, up, up, up to European prices exactly as he planned!! We are edging ever closer to $6.00/Gallon!. That certainly constitutes an ‘A’ [or a little higher] for Mr Chu doesn’t it?
Sarcasm is all mine!
We need to Vote wonderbama and ALL these people out! Drill Baby Drill!!