Full of gas
It’s bad enough for Democrats that they have been lampooned for their new Papa John’s-like “better” slogan, but even their Senate leader, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., steered off into Neverland when he brought up the subject of gas prices in a recent interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
With the wider use of fracking, gasoline prices came down under the administration of President Barack Obama, who opposed the fossil fuel extraction method. And gas prices, according to AAA, recently were tabbed “the cheapest the country has seen all year.”
But Schumer had a different agenda, saying “huge companies buying up other companies” is the reason gas prices are going up.
“Gas prices are sticky – you know, when the domestic price goes uh when the uh price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up but it never goes down,” he said. “How the heck did we let Exxon and Mobil merge?”