alternative energy sources, excuse me, bob, more competitive. and newt gingrich earlier this year tied gas prices directly to the president. you believe he wants to see more expensive gas you said? of course he does, you know that. he said it himself, his policy has been outrageously anti-american energy, and the high price is directly a result of obama. mitt romney misquoted the president to make it seem like he wanted higher gas prices, here is that tape. there s no question when he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up. he said prices would skyrocket under his views, and he selected three people to help him implement that program. and this gas hike trio has been doing the job and gas prices are
directly to the president. you believe that he wants to see more expensive gas, you have said? of course he does, charlie, you know that. he has said himself his policy has been outrageously anti-american energy. the high price of gasoline is a direct result of obama. mitt romney misquoted the president to make it seem like he wanted higher gas prices. here s that tape. there s no question that when he ran for office he wanted to see gas prices go up. he said energy prices would skyrocket under his views, and he selected three people to help him implement that program. the secretary of energy, the secretary of the interior and the epa administrator. and this gas hike trio has been doing the job over the last three and a half years, and gas prices are up. the president never said that he wanted to see higher gas prices. as a candidate, he once said that curbing gas greenhouse
for us and he failed. let s take a look at what senator santorum s message is to the people of illinois. it s not only vote for me but definitely don t vote for the other guy because he s like your former senator from illinois, barack obama, listen. the more i look at the record of governor romney and match it up against barack obama, i feel like i m doing the training run for the general election. same issues i m out there campaigning against governor romney are the same issues i m going to campaign against barack obama on which is the government s overreach on health care, cap and trade, trying to control the manufacturing and energy sector of the economy and , of course, the bailouts. all of these things are are, you know, unfortunately governor romney and barack obama in the same place. well, mitt romney took some shots at barack obama yesterday. and, you know, he was really trying to capitalize on the anger that is growing in this country toward the high cost of gas. in fa
you made a commitment three years ago, or you made the commitment today, we ve got a national effort. let s go get it. right. maybe you would see some impact on prices. but the political fight over this is getting really, really nasty. the two sides are very clearly drawn. president obama says look, you got to tax the oil companies. that s the way you get prices down. david axelrod says you republicans who say you can get the gas prices down, that is snake oil. he used that expression. governor romney over the weekend, he says fire the gas hike trio, three cabinet secretaries who he says are responsible for high gas prices. by the way, a record in 2008 blaming bush for the high gas prices. that s the problem. credibility issue. finally drawn two sides here. it s a nasty fight and gas prices went up $3.84 your national average. up 110% since president obama has been in office. that s correct. stuart varney, always a
of energy related theme tied to higher gasoline prices so they certainly see this as a potential vulnerability and trying to do everything they can to counteract. as you heard and saw over the weekend mitt romney called for the firing of what he was calling the gas hike trio. take a listen to what he said. this gas hike trio has to resign or get fired. we have to get them out, get people in who will bring down the cost of gasoline. the question out there, does he think does romney think they are solely responsible for gas prices? we take a look at the entire market. richard, this is a political campaign and anytime someone sees a weakness they will try to capital o capitalize it. he said president obama wanted higher gasoline prices. he never did that. that was incorrect. he later modified his comments saying president obama talked about higher energy costs, which he did which he said would perhaps come if the cap and