~ EXCERPT ~ Are high gas prices a good thing? That is not as dumb a question as it sounds. Examine a few revealing remarks from President Obama and the Cabinet officials who are in charge of the nation's energy use and oil leases on federal lands. Then decide whether soaring gas prices are supposed to be good. In 2008, then-Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar — now the interior secretary in charge of the leasing of federal oil lands — refused to vote for any new offshore drilling. In a Senate exchange with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Salazar objected to...