'Let them eat road trips!' Sean Duffy pilloried for cheery response to $4.50 gas

[turbinetree]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheerfully downplayed rising fuel costs as the result of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and he was pilloried on social media.

The Transportation Secretary was asked by reporters Thursday at an event in Philadelphia about average gasoline prices surpassing $4.50 per gallon, and Duffy justified the president's war and insisted that prices weren't too high to consider a road trip.

"We live in a very different world, and I just don't think we've had other presidents who've been willing to see the threat and address the threat of Iran, so, opens up, I think you're going to see prices come down immediately," Duffy said. "You saw yesterday energy prices came down below $100 a barrel. I think we're at $93 this morning – don't quote me on that, I think we were at $92, $93 for Brent crude. So we're in a good place."

https://www.rawstory.com/sean-duffy-gas-prices/

Resign..............gaslighting is still gaslighting ............to bad wages haven't kept up with the raise in transportation costs there Duffy..............I have an idea why don't you pay for my trip that I may need to take in the future.........your an idiot with a capitol I..................

[Blues Heron]

1. Brent Crude currently 100.14

[Dave Bowman]

2. What a clueless moron.

[underpants]

3. Here's the part of the quote I'd seen. Clueless

"First of all, we want to encourage all Americans to take a road trip," he said. "Whether you're going to go two hours or two days to see your country."

"First it's Hassett with, 'Soaring credit card debt is awesome!' said journalist and author Mark Follman. "Now it's Duffy with, 'Let them eat road trips!'"

[displacedvermoter]

5. Bush wanted everyone to go out to dinner after 9/11

I guess rich people deal with trauma and financial uncertainty different than the rest of us do.

[turbinetree]

7. Yes they do.... I and about 55 other men and woman at Newark Liberty Airport knew that some of us were going to lose our

jobs because people forget that the screening at the airports was done with private contractors.............I and 14 other men lost our jobs thirty days after the event..........unemployment meant that we had lost about 450 per week in wages..............and then to top it all off the ESOP we were in for the mechanics/ pilots and management ..........was turning into crap.........some people like myself and everyone in the mechanics group lost everything in the ESOP..........I dislike Wall Street..........we asked for there help to get us over the slump.........nope, they basically said eat cake..............

[Initech]

4. Worst secretary of transportation ever!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Yeah, nobody else saw the threat of Iran until TSF tore up the nuclear agreement negotiated by Obama.