Top 10 misguided energy policies

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Top 10 misguided energy policies

by Human Events

05/12/2012

 

 

Taken individually, the items on this list are outrageous enough; but collectively, these ten examples show how the current administration puts America’s energy needs behind the left’s obsession with global warming alarmism.

 

1. Crucify oil companies

 

Al Armendariz, administrator of the EPA’s Texas regional office, unwittingly let the Obama administration’s true intentions be known with comments he made about enforcing environmental regulations on energy companies. “It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean,” he said. “They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them.” That pretty much sums up the policies of an administration that has done everything it can to combat the oil industry.

 

2. Keystone flub

 

Obama’s decision to halt the Keystone Pipeline XL cost the nation jobs, as well as access to energy resources not controlled by Middle East madmen, all to appease his environmental backers and Hollywood activists. His subsequent attempt to take credit for the southern leg of the project—the so-called Pipeline to Nowhere—shows the ridiculousness of his policy.

 

3. Alternative-fuel fantasies

 

Obama’s over-emphasis on alternative energy production has cost the nation billions of dollars as his administration showered stimulus money on companies like solar-panel producer Solyndra, which ultimately went bankrupt. While the number of failed green-energy projects keeps mounting, the amount of energy saved by such endeavors is minuscule.

Obama and the environmental lobby have long wanted higher gas prices to “save” the planet from global warming. Which party believes in fairy tales, Mr. Salazar?

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I've said it before... but I love Rush's description of the Chevy Volt as a coal powered car. Where do the leftest enviro-goons think that the power to charge the Volt comes from? Static electricity by rubbing a cat's fur?