Is obama OK with the suffering of Americans from skyrocketing energy prices?

He's not just OK with it, he's probably JOYFUL.

He said he wanted energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket".

President Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu uttered the kind of Washington gaffe that consists of telling the truth when inconvenient. According to Politico, Chu admitted to a House committee that the administration is not interested in lowering gas prices.

Chu, along with the Obama administration, regards the spike in gas prices as a feature rather than a bug. High gas prices provide an incentive for alternate energy technology, a priority for the White House, and a decrease in reliance on oil for energy.

The Heritage Foundation points out that hammering the American consumer with high gas prices to make electric and hybrid cars more appealing is consistent with Obama administration policy and Chu's philosophy. That explains the refusal to allow the building of the Keystone XL pipeline and to allow drilling in wide areas of the U.S. and offshore areas.

The consequences of the policy are not likely to be of benefit to the Obama administration. The Republican National Committee has already issued a video highlighting the spike in gas prices and the failure of the administration to address the issue.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has issued a half-hour video touting an energy plan he claims would result in $2.50 a gallon gasoline. The plan is based on unfettered drilling for oil and gas instead of a reliance on green energy. Gingrich has also savaged Obama's touting of algae based biofuel as "weird."

Chu has likely highlighted an issue Republicans are going to pick up and run with. Americans are not going to be appreciative of schemes to hit them in the wallet so the American economy can shift to green energy. Besides American traditional adherence to the free market, the idea of being fleeced by a deliberate government policy is likely to be greeted with anger.

Add into the mix green energy fiascos like Solyndra, and Chu might well have kindled a full blown scandal.

Not okay with it, just out of touch like he usually is, with how his goal of high energy prices will affect the Middle Class, and the poor. The very people he pretends to care about and belittle for "clinging to guns and religion."

The capitalist energy companies certainly are okay with it. You know the ones making billions off of us while Americans suffer.

Obama loooooooooves High Energy Prices.

That was His GOAL.

This is Just The Beginning!!!!!!!!!!

Well, since he ran on high gas prices and hired Chu 6 weeks after saying we need gas prices to rise to European level, then the answer must be yes

Apparently he is comfortable with it. Shocking that someone who pretends to care so much about the poor has so disproportionately acted against them during his presidency huh?

Oh! Woe to us! We are suffering so from high energy prices! Sniff! Sniff!

Actually I drive a Prius and take a subway to work. If you have to spend so much more because you couldn't figure out years ago that gas prices were going up regardless of who was President, that's your problem.

For him it's the next best thing he can do with his cloths on!!

he doesn't pay for his own gas! why should HE care about the soaring cost of a gallon of gas?!