Underpinning the American economy is access to reliable, cheap, abundant energy in all forms. It is needed to grow food, manufacture products, get people to work, heat and cool homes, run the internet, and move goods. Obama did not mention energy once in his speech, you could look it up.
A rational energy policy would include:
1) An aggressive drilling program including the Gulf of Mexico and ANWAR.
2) Developement of shale resources.
3) Approval of the Keystone pipeline.
I believe all of these things are within the authority of the president. Implementing a program like this would create jobs immediately and help eliminate uncertainty in the energy sector. Obama would have none of it.
The fact that Obama did not even give lip service to energy indicates that he has no idea what actually makes an economy run. Either that or he doesn’t care. There will be no economic expansion until he is gone.
“A rational energy policy would include:
1) An aggressive drilling program including the Gulf of Mexico and ANWAR.
2) Developement of shale resources.
3) Approval of the Keystone pipeline.
I believe all of these things are within the authority of the president. Implementing a program like this would create jobs immediately and help eliminate uncertainty in the energy sector. Obama would have none of it.
The fact that Obama did not even give lip service to energy indicates that he has no idea what actually makes an economy run. Either that or he doesn’t care. There will be no economic expansion until he is gone.”
IMHO..the biggest problem is that a rational energy policy for the USA is somehow beholden to the Office of the President.
Not much REAL economic expansion has occurred in the last 30years...and not much will until those powers assumed by the Office of the President are returned to We the People.