Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called for raising oil prices “through the roof,” so apparently has no feeling for the poor who are most harmed by higher oil and electricity prices. Justice Breyer spoke at 2007 Stanford Roundtable event

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was a panelist at a 10/13/2007 Stanford University Roundtable discussion which was published on You Tube in 2008.

1/13/2012, “Obama’s Commerce Secretary Wants Higher Energy Prices,” David Bier, globalwarming.org

“In a 2008 panel discussion with author Tom Friedman and Supreme Court Justice Stepehn Breyer, [future Obama Commerce Sec. John] Bryson said, “Take global warming. It’s going to cost something to deal effectively with this. Energy prices are going to have to go up.” His comments had an effect on Breyer.
 
“We better get away from oil. That’ll help us. I hear Tom Friedman and Bryson — they are giving five reasons why. …. They said the world ‘price’ — raise the price of oil. Raise the price of oil! Raise it through the roof, and then people will look for substitutes, so I cheer,” he said smiling…

“What I hear is,” Breyer continued, “’It’s just because you make these huge salaries in the judiciary. You haven’t thought about the average person.’ But I am thinking about the average person. Isn’t that the problem, that the average person is going to have to pay too, and quite a lot? You hear these ‘terrible’ words: tax. But remember Alfred Kahn? Kahn was told by Jimmy Carter don’t refer to the word recession, so he said, ‘OK, we’re about to have a banana.’ Fine, let’s put a banana on oil,” he said laughing.

These two liberal elites laugh as they conspire against the American consumer, the middle class, and the poor….

In theory, environmentalism is about protecting the poor and middle class from the careless capitalists. In reality, it amounts to persistent attacks on all those groups—capitalists on down….Energy taxes, renewable energy mandates, ethanol tariffs, cap-and-trade schemes, energy rationing, and a host of other programs raise the price of electricity and fuel, which primarily hurts the poor.”…
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Added: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at a 10/13/2007 Stanford University panel discussion published on You Tube in 2008, screen shot below from You Tube video



“Roundtable panelists: John Hennessy (President, Stanford University), Carlos Watson, General John Abizaid, Pamela Matson (Dean, Stanford School of Earth Sciences), Stephen Breyer (US Supreme Court), Thomas Friedman (author and New York Times columnist), John Bryson (CEO, Edison International). Recorded on October 13, 2007 at Stanford University.” (text from You Tube video page)
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Added: John Bryson appointed: John Bryson: 5/31/2011, Obama nominates John Bryson to be Commerce Sec.; 

6/21/2012, Sec. Bryson resigns as Commerce Sec. for health reasons.

5/31/2011, “Obama Nominates Bryson for Commerce Secretary,” NY Times blogs, Jackie Calmes


“Among those Mr. Obama was said to be interested in for the commerce job was Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google….

President Obama named a California utility and energy executive, John E. Bryson, as his second secretary of commerce at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, ending a search for an executive to add a business outlook to his economic team.
........ In his introduction of John Bryson on Tuesday, President Obama noted Mr. Bryson’s advocacy for clean energy technologies. Mr. Bryson was chairman and chief executive of Edison International, parent company of Southern California Edison and Edison Mission Group, for nearly two decades until 2008….

Mr. Bryson is a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, a director of the California Endowment and the W. M. Keck Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank Americas. Previously Mr. Bryson served on educational, energy and environmental boards, including as a trustee of Stanford University, a member of a United Nations advisory group on energy and climate change, and head of California’s Public Utilities Commission and its State Water Resources Control Board. Early in his career, Mr. Bryson was a founder of the national environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council.”…image of Obama and Bryson from NY Times


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