The Obama and others on the Left’s opposition to efficient fracturing of Oil and Gas reservoirs is just another diversionary smokescreen to hide their main goal of Nationalizing the US Oil and Gas Industry.
As Obamacare continues to fail and drain more and more money out of the already bankrupt US Treasury, another income stream will have to be diverted from the private sector to the insatiable vote-buying greed of “both” Federal political parties.
I suspect that Obama is withholding approval of the XL Pipeline until the opportune time when Obama will be “forced to save” the US Oil and Gas Industry by Nationalizing all US Oil & Gas pipelines, and then use taxpayer dollars to built the XL Pipeline to Chicago with all Union Labor, and Democrat Contractors.
Obama would then have a secure income stream to pay for much of Obamacare, or any replacement insurance “tax” derivatives as might be proposed in the future by the doormat RINOs or Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Of course the b_tards would like to nationalize the oil industry.
Maxine Waters has been videoed saying just that. She is not smart enough for that to be an original idea she had. They have long planned how to do just that.
Of course like Chavez, it would not take long and the oil industry would be the disaster that everything else they control is.
In 1849 Frederic Bastiat wrote about the failure of Socialism, there has never been a success since.