Political Quotes

“The Senator is absolutely right. I say to my colleagues from Texas and Missouri, they are right on in terms of the impact on Ohio families. I was home last week. In fact, I drove from Ohio to Washington last night. I had to fill up a couple of times on the way, and the price was over $3.70 a gallon. According to AAA, the average price now is over $2.70 a gallon. This is impacting families. I have met with people who were in the trucking business and small operators who are trying to make ends meet. They are saying: Rob, I do not know how this is going to work because our gas prices keep going up at a time when our expenses are going up as well. They are getting squeezed out. Of course, higher prices for gas affect all of us as families, they affect everything we buy, because that cost is embedded there. So this is hurting our economy in very fundamental ways. Record levels for this time of year. This is not just a seasonal issue. This is a longer term failure of an energy policy by the Obama administration. That is something we all need to focus on, not to just be critical of bad policies which have gotten us here, but how do we get out of it? What do we do? That is what I wish to talk about for a minute today. Let me give you a couple of interesting numbers. The price of gas has increased by 94 percent in the last 3\1/2\ years, during the Obama administration. So you are talking about almost a 100-hundred percent increase in the cost of gasoline.…”