Quite frankly, GP...I'm appalled that I'd NEED to answer that question! How do you not know that Barack Obama actively worked to make fossil fuels more expensive?
"What did Obama do to knee-cap fossil fuel production"
Fossil fuel political giving outdistances renewables 13 to one
Oil & Gas: Background | OpenSecrets
"Energy companies often favor lawmakers in fossil fuel-producing states.
"Republicans have led the efforts to defeat President Barack Obama's climate-change efforts.
"Still, the energy sector did
contribute $2.5 million to Obama's 2012 campaign.
"It donated more than $10 million to presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's, however.
"According to advocacy group Oil Change International, President Obama "proposed cutting [oil] subsidies every year he's been in office.'
"The group estimates that these cuts would save about
$4 billion annually, but none of cuts have made it through Congress."