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John Rice Carter: “I said, I wanted to ask your opinion on gasoline prices. This lady started crying. She said, I am a single mom. I have…”

On the recordJune 3, 2008
I said, I wanted to ask your opinion on gasoline prices. This lady started crying. She said, I am a single mom. I have got three kids, two of which I have to transport to everything that they go to. I don't want to deprive my children of anything that they can go to, like their ballet lessons or their ball games. But I just don't know how I am going to be able to feed my family and be able to take my kids around, with the price of gasoline. That is an energy expert. This lady knows that the fact that we have failed in our energy policy in this country has caused her to have a harm imposed upon her family. There's not much you can say to that energy expert but I'm sorry, ma'am. We are trying.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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Discussing the impact of rising gasoline prices on families during a speech on energy policy.

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