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Romney targets Obama over gasoline prices

By Matt Viser

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 18, 2012

Mitt Romney on Sunday morning not only blamed President Obama for the rising gasoline prices, but said that the president should fire three of his cabinet members who oversee energy issues. Tagging them the “gas hike trio” – and pointing to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson – the former Massachusetts governor said they should lose their jobs. He also blamed President Obama for the strife in Afghanistan, and for not doing more to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.

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