PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS, SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” EDITION: AOC Preps Bronx Voters for Tonight’s Trump Rally With an Amazing Gas Price Warning.
Odd how he failed to do that the first time. https://t.co/8vJyPxetOp
— JWF (@JammieWF) May 23, 2024
Setting aside the important and required response of “why didn’t he do this during his first term?” question which needs to be asked whenever the left has a new meltdown over the Bad Orange Man, why on earth would AOC be opposed to higher gas prices? In February of 2019, as the Federalist noted at the time, her now-infamous Green Nude Eel listed the goal of replacing “every ‘combustion-engine vehicle’ — trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars — within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built ‘everywhere,’ though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.”
Higher gas prices have been openly stated as the goal of the enviro-left for over a decade and a half. Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That same year, the L.A. Times ran the headline “The joy of $8 gas,” and in lockstep, NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times all called for higher gas taxes. In 2023, the Washington Free Beacon noted that “Biden Taps Economist Who Bemoaned Gas Prices ‘Too Damn Low.’” The previous year, Fox News reported, “Amid high gas prices, Pete Buttigieg slammed for telling Americans to switch to electric cars.”
In 2021, then Biden-press secretary Jen Psaki told her party’s operatives with bylines, “our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options so that we are not relying on the fluctuations and OPEC and their willingness to put more supply and meet the demand in the market.”
So why would AOC be complaining about Trump nudging gas prices up, when it’s something she presumably still wants?
Related: In other AOC news, Sandy’s saying the quiet part out loud: AOC: Prosecuting Trump Is Like Putting ‘An Ankle Bracelet Around Him’ Because He Can’t Campaign.