vía Politico.com
1. “They [OPEC] want to go in and raise the price of oil because we have nobody in Washington that sits back and says you’re not going to raise that f—-ing price, you understand me?” — Donald Trump (April 2011)
2. “I figured out Karl Rove’s political strategy – make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.” — Sen. John Kerry (May 2004)
3. “President Obama must announce today in his Nashua address that he is firing Secretary Chu and replacing him with a pro-American-energy appointment. If he doesn’t, then the American people will know the president is still committed to his radical ideology, which wants to artificially raise the cost of energy.” — Newt Gingrich (March, 2012)
4. “You’ve got Donald Trump saying don’t pay OPEC $100 for the oil. Just tell them you’ll give them $50. Really? I go into Trump’s hotel, it’s $1,000 for a suite and I say I’m not going to give you that, I’ll give you $200. I’m on the street looking for another place to sleep. You can’t tell them I’ll give you $50 when the world market is $100. It just doesn’t work that way.” – T. Boone Pickens (Feb. 2012)
5. “We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices.” – Rick Santorum (Feb. 2012)
6. “I can get you a gallon of gasoline for a dime. … You can buy a gallon of gasoline today for a silver dime. A silver dime is worth $3.50, it’s all about inflation and too many regulations.” – Ron Paul (Sept. 2011)
7. “Since the president has been president, the cost of gasoline has doubled. Not exactly what he might have hoped for. … He’s said it’s not my fault. By the way, we’ve gone from ‘Yes, we can’ to ‘It’s not my fault.’ Well, this is in fact his fault.” – Mitt Romney (March 2012)
8. “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” – Energy Secretary Steven Chu (Sept. 2008)
9. “The next time you hear some politician trotting out some three-point plan for $2 gas, you let them know, we know better. Tell them we’re tired of hearing phony, election year promises that never come about.” — President Barack Obama (March, 2012)
10. Honorary mention: Dan Aykroyd, playing President Jimmy Carter in a Saturday Night Live skit in the 1970s, had some fun with Carter’s famous suggestion that Americans put on sweaters and turn down the heat:
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we have to ruin all wealthy countries, because its not right that you have more than us. it doesnt matter that we are opressive and keep our own people down, its just the way we are.
“Do you know where they used to get oil from? Whale blubber. Do you know how expensive it would be and how impossible it would be to meet the demand for a productive society today if we still had to get oil from whale blubber? If not for the John Rockefeller’s of the World, and Henry Fords and so called burly mustached monopoly men we wouldnt have efficient transportation”
“Good thing we have our wise overlords that can keep our prices low and regulate for us and use their law degrees to ‘make things better’… I mean I would like to be able to fly, maybe we can pass a law against gravity!”