It’s gonna be hard, y’know? Hard work!”:

US President George W. Bush has warned rising oil prices will mean a “tough summer” for US consumers as the high cost of gasoline (petrol) showed signs of becoming a big political issue.

But even as more Americans expressed discontent over the price of filling up their gas tanks, Bush suggested there was little his government could do in the short term about the problem. “We’re going to have a tough summer because people are beginning to drive now during tight supply,” Bush said as he toured a California facility developing hydrogen-powered vehicles.

“The American people have got to understand what happens elsewhere in the world affects the price of gasoline you pay here.” (emphasis mine)

Sure. Also, you have to realize that lower prices & a weaning off of oil are contradictory goals. And that subsidizing the living shit out of oil companies makes it worse, not better. And that your foreign policy inherently has plenty to do with “what happens elsewhere”. And that you can’t fool people into thinking you aren’t an oil boy to the bone simply by touring a hydrogen-car factory. And that US citizens dumb enough not to realize that the price of gas has something to do with the crap going on overseas are the only ones dumb enough to still be supporting you. And…

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