Ron Johnson: “His energy secretary said, we've got to get our gasoline…”

“It was President Obama that said as a candidate that, you know, what we need to do is because of his cap and trade policies, electricity rates would naturally skyrocket. His energy secretary said, we've got to get our gasoline prices up to the level of Europe. So what, you know, his jobs council was proposing runs totally contrary to what President Obama's ideology is. You know, if you're going to make America an attractive place for business expansion, you don't increase people's taxes.” (00:55–01:00)

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