Obama's 'Extreme Team' On Energy

FOXNews.com ^ | February 06, 2009 | Ben Lieberman

[Delacon]

 One of them wanted to see Americans paying $8 a gallon for gasoline. Another tried to block access to domestic oil reserves that could one day exceed those in Saudi Arabia. Another thinks global warming is a dire crisis justifying a massive crackdown on energy -- decades after saying the same thing about global cooling. Yet another had a position in the one of the world’s top socialist organizations.

Meet the Obama administration’s energy team.

Forget everything you’ve heard about the president’s moderate picks on the economy, national security and other issues. When it comes to energy policy and related environmental concerns, this group is off-the-charts extreme. Too bad the issue will be a critical one over the next few years.

Consider Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu. “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying last September. In most Western European nations, gas taxes alone come to around $4 a gallon and are designed to make the pump price so high that people are forced to drive a lot less. At the time of Chu’s comment, the “levels in Europe” were near $8 a gallon.

Chu has also said that electricity prices are “anomalously low,” though he neglected to indicate how much higher he wants them to go. Instead of a secretary of energy, it sounds like America is getting its first secretary against energy. Chu backed off such rhetoric after being nominated, but his true feelings seem obvious.

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is Obama’s choice to head the Department of the Interior, the agency that handles energy leasing on federal lands and most offshore areas. As a senator, Salazar has opposed

[Delacon]

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

He’s hellbent for leather to destroy the economy...one way or the other.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[FlingWingFlyer]

Elections do have consequences. They should not be used to “make history.”

[steelyourfaith]

 

"Chu Have No Clue"

[HwyChile]

This is the kind of thing that needs to be written about by as many different people as possible. Great job. The word needs to get out on Obama and his extreme administration and his extreme ideology.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Great find. I knew about Chu, but not Holdren, with his view that we need plans to “de-develop the United States.”

[ezfindit]

What a COMPLETE DISASTER is America facing. God help us! Within 2.5 weeks of election, Zero is proving to be the catastrophe we all warned the country about. If this keeps up the Great Depression will look like a pothole compared with the Grand Canyon type disaster awaiting us all.

[Candor7]

What a bunch of shooflies.

I guess i had better start building a stable and acquiring a wagon and a team of horses and mules.

I hope they don't ban them because horses and mules fart.

[Delacon]

No human is so important that a tree should die.

[maggief]

“He’s hellbent for leather to destroy the economy...one way or the other.”

And, our constitution, military, borders ...

It’s his plan.

[twistedwrench]

The California infection is spreading fast.

[ripley]

irresponsible asses.

[rogue yam]

As with Chu, Obama’s choice for science adviser, John Holdren, has impressive academic credentials but some very strange energy and environmental policy views. Even Al Gore can’t match Holdren’s global warming gloom-and-doom rhetoric, including the claim that it could kill as many as 1 billion people by 2020. Holdren’s a veteran at making such alarming predictions, but back in the 1970s he worried more about whether man would survive the “threat of making the planet too cold.”

I happen to know Uncle Ho. He is an anti-progress maniac. He lives to fetter the American economy and impoverish the American people.

[rogue yam]

I knew about Chu, but not Holdren...

Holdren is a menace, clever and ruthless and absolutely determined to shut America down.

[Candor7]

Yes, I have been feeding self sacrificinng Dems to my trees for many years. It reminds me of the movie/musical, “ Little Shop of Horrors.”