Obama’s Failed Energy Plan

Right after the election of Barack Obama the Wall Street Journal ran an article detailing the Obama agenda for the country. Obama’s energy strategy included assembling a team which included fellow Nobel Peace prize winning physicist Steven Chu as his Energy Secretary. The Obama goal was to “wean” the U.S. off of imported oil. Was the plan to expand drilling and glut the market with oil thus driving down the price? No, the plan was to promote “efficiency projects” and energy Secretary Chu was pressing for the raising of gas taxes to “coax consumers into buying more efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work.”

Over the past four years the Obama team has not had much luck with convincing congress to increase the gas taxes but they have had some success in sliding billions of dollars into “greenie” initiatives that have increased America’s energy costs. Also the ramping up of EPA regulations have stymied electrical and gas plant expansions and limited production which in turn has caused increases in prices to consumers. Millions of dollars have been spent in alternative energy boondoggles including the much ballyhooed Solyndra Solar Energy federal guarantee that left the taxpayers out millions when the company folded. In addition the presidential team’s failure to take even the simplest actions to promote our energy self-sufficiency such as approving the Keystone Pipeline has caused our consumer prices to sky-rocket.

Last week President Obama tried to mitigate the damage his failure to support the Keystone Pipeline has caused his democrat political operatives by visiting Cushing, Oklahoma to give one of his “I support America” BS circus speeches to try and convince the people of Oklahoma that he was responsible for the approval of the Oklahoma section of the Keystone Pipeline. Contrary to what the president and his smoking teleprompter had to say this section of the pipeline was already approved “IN SPITE OF” his efforts and those of his behind the scenes energy team. How dumb does he think the American people truly are?

I think Daniel Graeber writing for Oil price.com put it best when he said:

“Constituents in a democratic society have a reasonable expectation to get the information needed from their elites to make informed decisions at the ballot box. When emotional appeals, however, trump information, there's little actual knowledge gained, much less any value, from the ongoing political theater that is getting passed off as U.S. domestic energy policy”

President Obama and Senator Tester's belated sudden interest in what is best for the American consumer is nothing more than a well orchestrated farce on the voting public. I hope the American voters aren’t really as dim-witted as these guys think we are.