As an example of the ping pong nature of Obama's energy policy, let's drift into the Way Back Machine to the good old days of December 2010 a long, long five months ago.
On December 1 CNN reported that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced"Barack Obama will not be allowing new drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years" and "the exploration of drilling possibilities in sensitive areas of the Arctic will proceed 'with utmost caution.'"
According to the CNN report, that announcement - again five months ago -"Effectively reverses White House plans announced at the end of March [14 months ago] to open the Gulf region - along with other large swaths of U.S. coastal waters - to oil and natural gas drilling."
Yeah, well, that was then; this is now.
And:
We need an energy policy which makes sense, which will provide some measure of stability, and which reflects the realities of available domestic resources from wind and solar, to nuclear and natural gas.
Obama treats national energy policy with the same careless disregard as the deficit and economic growth. It's not real to him. I feel like I'm living in a ADD run children's playhouse.
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Amnerican energy policy is to trade shiny sheets of paper with green ink on it for foreign oil until there is no more oil except for oil possessed by Americans.
That is really a very clever energy policy if you think about it. Almost as good as trading a box of glassy beads for Manhattan.
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