Obama insisted yesterday that “There is no magic formula to driving gas prices down.” That is true. But there are also things the government can do that will drive the price of gas up. And the Obama administration has done many of them including:
- Immediately after taking office in 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, canceled 77 leases for oil and gas drilling in Utah.
- The EPA announced new rules mandating the use of 36 billion gallons worth of renewable fuels (like ethanol) by 2020.
- Last summer President Obama needlessly instituted, not one, but two outright drilling bans in the Gulf of Mexico.
- After rescinding his outright offshore drilling ban, President Obama has refused to issue any new drilling permits in the Gulf, a policy that the Energy Information Administration estimates will cut domestic offshore oil production by 13% this year
- Interior Secretary Salazar announced that the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast, and the Pacific coast will not be developed, effectively banning drilling in those areas for the next seven years;
- The Environmental Protection Agency has announced new global warming regulations for oil refineries;
- Interior Secretary Salazar announced new rules making it more difficult to develop energy resources on federal land.
- The EPA is slowing a pipeline that would expand U.S. access to Canadian oil sands.
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One of these might have been explainable.
Even two of them, considering the oil spill in the Gulf.
But all of them is certainly a pattern.
Obama wants to drive up the prices of gas.
Oh, and BTW, for a funny video, BBC’s Top Gear test drove the $200,000 dollar Government subsidized Tesla roadster.
Neat-o car!
BUT….the Top Gear guys were funny and honest.
It only gets 55miles to a charge then requires 16 hours to recharge!
They suggest buying two of them if you can afford one.
And they had two.
Both broke down on the first day they drove them.
Also, the gas powered car the Tesla is based on…..1/3rd the cost and handles way better, more dependable and just as cute.
http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-reviews-tesla-roadster_206233.htm
or
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/c3neux/top-gear-reviews-the-tesla-roadster
Obama and the feds and Tesla are trying to sue BBC and Top Gear!
For what?
Telling the truth.
No 200 miles per charge!
One other thing.
Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club hints at why Obama thought he could pull this off …. for a while:
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