White House Gas Pains

[Geee]

Daily Caller:

The White House officials are scheduling two more out-of-town trips this week to showcase the President’s energy strategy, possibly marking an uptick in concern about the political impact of rising gas prices.

The Wednesday trip to Philadelphia and the Friday trip to Indianapolis will allow him to continue “speaking directly with Americans about his long-term plan to protect consumers against rising oil prices and decrease oil imports,” said press secretary Jay Carney.

The events and focus are needed because “when gas hits the $4 a gallon mark, voters get really upset [even though] they don’t understand that the President can’t change gas prices,” said Kenneth Green, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market think-tank in D.C. Also, he added, officials are using the “the high price of gasoline to advance a anti-fossil fuel agenda.”

In recent weeks, the President has sharply increased promotion of his energy policy, using a P.R. blueprint that is now standard in the White House. For example, on March 30, the president delivered an address at Georgetown University where he redefined the political problem of high-gas prices as a history of unstable oil-prices. He then offered a compromise policy that would set prices between too-cheap and too-expensive, cut oil-imports by one-third, and emphasized that government experts – including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has a Nobel science prize – are already working hand-in-hand with high-tech companies.

[NCTexan]

Relieving "White House Gas Pains"

 

The White House officials are scheduling two more out-of-town trips this week to showcase the President’s energy strategy....

 

[AceRimmer]

NCTexan!

 

How much 100% aviation fuel is Air Force 1 going to burn on our dime for these two road trips? How about the POTUS limo, and the escort cars for the Secret Service?

 

I remember living on the West Bank of New Orleans in the early-mid 80's and everytime Reagan came to town, traffic would be snarled for hours. How much gas is that going to waste for potential voters next year?