... his[Obama's] decision [to prohibit domestic drilling] costs America countless jobs and countless tens of billions of dollars in our balance of payment account. It weakens the dollar. It increases the deficit and debt. It funds those oil producers like Saudi Arabia who fund terrorists with more petrodollars. It enriches tyrants like Hugo Chavez who might otherwise go bankrupt and enables them to make alliances with tyrants like Putin to undermine American security by placing nuclear bombers in Venezuela. It supports tyrants like Putin who might otherwise go bankrupt and who supplies Iran with nuclear technology and invades his neighbors. It makes America more dependent on foreign energy. It leaves America more vulnerable to terrorists. It prolongs and deepens the recession. It makes America vulnerable.
This decision is so inimical to America's national interests that I can conceive of only two reasons why a man who has been entrusted by the people with their security and their prosperity would make such a decision.
First, Obama could be a committed ideologue who is determined to break the United States away from fossil fuels and switch our economy over to wind and solar. (One notes that he has not opted for nuclear, having declared the waste problem prevents that.) He is willing to suffer the costs identified in the first paragraph at a time when America is facing a historic financial crisis which involves real suffering by his people who are out of work. The hold of this ideology on the President is so strong that he cannot even countenance domestic drilling not even only until the financial crisis has passed.
The second possible reason is that the president has cold bloodedly calculated that his energy policy, when considered in pari materia with cap and trade will so dislocate the economy and produce so much chaos which he will exploit and move the country towards Marxism.
I leave the reader to make his choice or to furnish a third or fourth more benign explanation for what the president is doing. Whatever motivation has prompted this action, it is clear that his ideological commitment, whether green or red, is so strong that he will never be deterred by reason. I also suggest that if his motivation were merely to forward the green goals of eliminating emissions of fossil fuels, Barak Obama would opt for atomic energy. That he has not suggests that his posture is a sham calculated to advance the revolution.
