Not Natural Born Obama Wants Gas Prices To Go UP, So, Don’t Look 4 Cheaper Gas...

Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) today alleged the Obama administration wants gas prices to go up in order to make alternative sources of fuel more competitive and to reduce pollution.

“I tell ya, in 2008, $4 gasoline brought my state to its knees before Wall Street melted down,” Barbour said, “and we’ve blown through $3 a gallon on our way to $4, and it reminds me of what the Secretary of Energy said in 2008, Secretary [Steven] Chu, then Dr. Chu, said what we really need in the United States to get the cost of gasoline up to where it is in Europe $8 or $9 a gallon. We don’t need that where I am.”

He added, “This administration’s policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive.”

Chu told the Wall Street Journal in 2008 that “somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Read More: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/02/6172480-barbour-claims-obama-admin-wants-gas-prices-to-go-up