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Remember when Obama kept repeating the mantra, “We Can’t Wait” on jobs while he punted until after the election a decision on a Keystone XL pipeline that would have created 20,000 jobs?
And remember then how with gas prices under Obama on their way to rising more in his administraion than they did even through Jimmy Carter and the Arab Oil Embargo, how Obama did some shameless Kabuki theater, trying to take credit for the southern leg of Keystone XL (the part over which he had no control) after he had just pulled the plug on that northern leg?
Environmentalist thought of the day: how much fuel does it take to fly Air Force One out to Oklahoma for a few minutes of speech and photo-op?
Well, I’m sure you’ve probably heard, but now we get this quote from Obama’s EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz on dealing with the oil and gas industry:
“I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I said: ‘It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years. It’s a deterrent factor,’” Armendariz said, explaining that the EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.
source: Craig Bannister at CNS News.
video: EPAs “philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of US energy producers
Don’t imagine for a second that it’s just coincidence that a man who is so hostile to American oil and gas producers was appointed as the administrator overseesing Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, five of the most important energy producing states in America. He was a political appointee and they knew how much he hated the American oil and gas industry.
It’s all according to plan for the Obama administration.
When your own government leaders speak of a “philosophy” of “crucifixition” for America’s energy producers, I say the leaders of those industries should do what they have to do for the survival of their businesses and the well-being of the nation as a whole.
If Al Armendariz is talking about nailing the oil and gas industry to a cross, maybe the oil and gas industry should start nailing up some even higher prices. I’d be okay with that. If it were to help make this long reign of ruin come to an end four years sooner, yes we can endure a few more months of pain at the pump.
