Obama's 'starve America first' energy policy creates a backlash

Washington Examiner ^ | March 7, 2011 | Ron Arnold

[Scanian]

"Energy is the capacity to do work." That simple truth from Physics 101 has everything to do with gas prices spiking at the pump as Moammar Gadhafi's war planes bomb Libya's rebel-held oil district and the whole Middle East seethes in unrest. With shaky foreign energy supplies threatening to deepen the worst recession since World War II, why doesn't America protect its capacity to do work by drilling for more oil and gas here at home? Simple truth from Politics 101: Big Green's extreme anti-energy ideology permeates the Obama administration.

Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the D.C.-based Institute for Energy Research, told me, "The Obama administration is deliberately embargoing our own domestic energy from us, from Americans.

He and his agency heads all believe in the politics of scarcity -- force society to live with less. The most anti-energy interior secretary in history is Obama's Ken Salazar -- who is also presently in contempt of court for withholding deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil drilling permits."

Department of the Interior Secretary Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado well practiced in Washington's pretended niceties, wields power with self-assured arrogance that needs no bluster. Two days before Christmas last year, he issued Secretarial Order 3310, in which through bureaucratic fiat he created a new category of off-limits federal property that he calls "Wild Lands."

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., held a hearing last week to criticize Salazar's end-run around congressional authorization and the Wild Lands order's adverse impact on jobs and economic growth. Hastings was clearly furious, ending his opening statement with, "This administration should be on notice that unilateral decisions and orders to impose restrictive, job-destroying policies will be met with firm resistance."

[MrB]

appalled that this country ostensibly elected someone who was chums with someone like Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and “Reverend” Wright

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But he’s “historic” because he’s “black”! That makes up for EVERYTHING else, including his intentional destruction of the country.
/sarc

[Gene Eric]

That’s the way I see too.

[TigersEye]

That is the latest and the most complete version. I don't always use the whole thing. The first part, the list of non-actions, was actually compiled before 0bowdown was Pres. with the exception of the Gulf moratorium. This ridiculous no-energy policy has been going on for decades.

What in the blue blazes is wrong with our politicians? There is no excuse for this. Is it just the corruption of personal greed or do they really want to see this country crash and burn?

[FreedomPoster]

I’m not sure this is an either/or situation. Both/and would seem more than likely.

[TigersEye]

If they manage to bring the USA down they had better be prepared for payback.

[The Duke]

I see it as a national form of murder of its citizen’s way of life by their own government.

I see it as the suicide of liberalism and the Democrat party. As far as I'm concerned the extra money I pay at the pump to fuel my large SUV is the price tag for ejecting Obama in disgrace a couple of years from now. I consider it a bargain!

That oil will still be there when the grown-ups get back in charge.