Conservative
Type 40
great opinion piece by Joseph Curl of the Washington Times.
CURL: Can you really afford four more years? - Washington Times
CURL: Can you really afford four more years? - Washington Times
In January 2009, when President Obama was sworn in, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $1.68.
Candidate Obama made political hay of the issue throughout 2008, boldly asserting that he - and he alone - was most able to bring prices down.
Since taking office, he has declared 85 percent of our offshore areas off-limits, decreased oil and gas leases in the Rockies by 70 percent, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and has 10 federal agencies planning more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, which is key to oil and natural-gas development, says Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.
On private lands, oil production is booming, wrote Fox reporter Jim Angle. In North Dakota, the oil and gas are on private or state land and beyond the presidents control. The state has gone from producing a small amount of oil to some 450,000 barrels a day. Unemployment is 3.3 percent, the lowest in the country. And the state has a budget surplus in the billions.
But America cant afford four more years of trying to turn a community organizer into a president. Theyd be better off trying to turn pond scum into fuel.