[kiryandil]

The right response is to get serious about forming a monster deal of our own: to unite with our neighbors and allies in Canada and Mexico to connect North America’s energy bonanza from shale oil and gas and oil sands to every area of the continent — from Alberta to Mexico City — and then build the infrastructure to export it to our allies in Western Europe. Stop pretending, Mr. President, that we are going to power our $18 trillion economy with windmills and solar panels. This isn’t a time for pixie dust.

What part of "the crazy people are in charge" don't Americans understand?

[jsanders2001]

That’s one coalition that could destroy our nation no doubt especially with the severely crippled military we have now. I’m surprised we haven’t has a Red Dawn moment yet.

[Bryanw92]

Energy independence and American manufacturing will shift the balance back. Make the world need us more than we need them and we win.

[Truth29]

These are all steps that would help America; why would Obama want to do any of it?

[Portcall24]

This article is spot-on and someone in the administration should step back and take it seriously.

[EEGator]

Fear mongering headline.

The four steps are solid points though.

[MurrietaMadman]

I’d like to see official conservative mouthpieces stop telling US we should be scared.

Alarmed, yes. Scared, no. Having the American culture redefined by the Left is bad enough but hearing and reading the words of people who should know better, reinforce this attempted character shift, is beginning to annoy me.

[kiryandil]

All aboard!

click the pic for Ozzy's interpretation of America's "energy policy"...

[MeshugeMikey]

We need a big-boy response to the Russia–China alliance, so let us hope this White House is up to it.

The White House? Yes...its current Occupant....NO

[mac_truck]

Steps 2 & 3 are backwards.

Export the coal and the clean coal technology.

Produce more natural gas and clean technologies for it domestically.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How about putting paid to the globull warming hocus pocus.

There could be worse things for China and Russia to get involved with than bread and circuses.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We are 2.5 years from taking any steps in the right direction. Obama wll not back down on his insane ideology.

[moovova]

Bookmark.

[dowcaet]

This is the end result of liberalism. I’m so sick and tired of our side being so passive in attacking the lefties that are dragging us down. Position papers and op-ed pieces are useless.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

so we can export our 500 years’ worth of natural gas all over the world.

Yeah, I don't know about that one.

I think it's time to pull the plug on the freakin "global market" AND the tactic of not requiring oil speculators to take physical possession of any particular energy commodity.

We need to develop and consume our own energy stocks and enact principles that allow a decent return for domestic producers and affordable prices for consumers.

There should be nothing to keep the exploration/fracking/horizontal drilling experts from making the big bucks, by helping certain nations develop their own untapped resources.

Drilling leases?

There shouldn't be such a thing as "federal lands",

[silverleaf]

“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;who rules the World-Island controls the world.”(Halford Mackinder. “The Geographic Pivot of History”))

Russia + China = a pretty big pivot in the center of the world-island.

But for the next big conflict, throw in the two powerful blue water navies of the heartland powers, Russia and China

Of course the Clinton-Rodham-Kerry strategic geniuses in the US State Department are sure Russia and China will never ally because they are rivals, that’s what their Ivy league armchair geopolitical strategists taught them.

That, and being accommodating to Iran will encourage the emergence of a “moderate” regime (been hearing that one from liberals since 1979.

[X-spurt]

Scared? No, I find it funny that both parties will be sucker-punched by the other with Russia pretending to send good gas and China paying with pretend money.

[Don Corleone]

A coalition between Russia and China with a candy-a$$ed administration like we have now and are likely to have again if Hillary is immaculated spells total disaster for the west and civilized society.

[Carry_Okie]

To look at this with fear alone is foolish. At least the tiger won’t be as hungry for food.

[Rockingham]

There is little reason for the US to view the new Russia-China pipeline as a threat and it may well, on the net, prove to work toward our benefit.

First of all, the new pipeline will take many years to build, and of its capital cost of $55 billion, some $30 billion is to be raised by Gazprom. This will strain both Gazprom and the Russian treasury and limit what other projects and mischief they can undertake.

Moreover, the inevitable delays and corruption that attend such projects will test and may sour the Russia-China relationship. Similarly, Russia is inclined to use energy exports as a political weapon and tends to be heavy handed about it. This is likely to antagonize the increasingly proud and prickly Chinese.

Finally, the project will supplant oil that China now imports from petrostates in the Mid East. Since Iran is first on that list, the new pipeline does not token well for the Iranian regime.