Just
like Obamacare, President Obama is committed to force us into using
green energy regardless of what the people want – or can afford.
Although U.S. reserves of oil, natural gas and coal are inexpensive
and very abundant, Obama has done all he can to shut
down every plan to develop these sources of economically cheap energy.
Obama
even defied a court order requiring the Department of Interior grant
deep water drilling permits for oil. Meanwhile, Cuba contracted several
companies, including China, to conduct exploratory drilling
within 60 miles of the Florida coast; something Obama would not
let U.S. companies do. By the end of 2011, Cuba
had brought in a Chinese deep water drilling rig and started drilling
some 60-70 miles from Florida.
The
EPA
is also refusing to grant new permits to open new coal mines and
has gone so far as to revoke existing permits. Once again, the federal
court ruled against the efforts of the Obama administration, in this
case the EPA, charging that the EPA
exceeded its authority under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
One
of Obama’s most recent actions was to deny
the permit to build the XL oil pipeline from Canada down to Texas.
The pipeline would have delivered 1.2 million barrels of oil a day;
the amount of oil the U.S. currently gets from Saudi Arabia, and 46
percent more than all the wind and solar energy currently produced in
the U.S. each day. This has led energy-sector
executives to suspect the administration “is at war with American
energy.”
While
Obama gives lip service to reducing the dependence of the U.S. on foreign
energy and create jobs, he is actually making America more dependent
on foreign energy, reducing the U.S.’s national security, while
killing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process. It borders on
the bizarre, yet the mainstream media are strangely quiet about this
threat while promoting the president’s jobs program which even
some
Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted down.
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