The Truth Behind Obama's Energy Policy

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
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Obama Holds News Conference On Nation's Energy and Environmental Future

With a struggling economy and millions out of work the Obama Energy Department, headed up by Energy Secretary Steven Chu has come clean with respect to the administration's real plans in regards to energy policy. And it isn't to lower the cost of energy. Irrespective of the financial headships it will place on those who right now can ill afford it rising energy costs are seen as a positive by Obama and Chu.

POWERLINE - Barack Obama came into office as an anti-petroleum crusader. He made no bones about the fact that he wanted gas prices to rise; likewise, his Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, explained that he wanted U.S. gas prices to rise to European levels. In those days, global warming alarmists were riding high, and the Obama administration accepted the idea that to prevent climate change, it should suppress production of domestic oil and gas, thereby raising the price of fossil fuel energy (gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil, coal-fired electricity, etc.) so that Americans would not be able to afford as much of it. This was, of course, a strategy for impoverishing the American people, but in those heady times, the administration considered that a minor inconvenience if not a positive virtue.

Now, however, Obama is running for re-election, and the American people have not enjoyed being impoverished on his watch. Moreover, global warming alarmism has been largely discredited. So Obama is pretending that his administration hasn’t spent the last three years driving energy costs up, on purpose. Chu, however, is a true believer. When he testified before the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee yesterday, he was asked whether the administration’s goal is to bring down the price of gas for the benefit of consumers.

From Politico - Secretary Of Energy Chu's response to the above question.

“I can’t look at motivations. I have to look at results. And under this administration the price of gasoline has doubled,” Nunnelee told Chu.

“The people of north Mississippi can’t be here, so I have to be here and be their voice for them,” Nunnelee added. “I have to tell you that $8 a gallon gasoline makes them afraid. It’s a cruel tax on the people of north Mississippi as they try to go back and forth to work. It’s a cloud hanging over economic development and job creation.”

Chu expressed sympathy but said his department is working to lower energy prices in the long term.

“We agree there is great suffering when the price of gasoline increases in the United States, and so we are very concerned about this,” said Chu, speaking to the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee. “As I have repeatedly said, in the Department of Energy, what we’re trying to do is diversify our energy supply for transportation so that we have cost-effective means.”

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“But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.

“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied. “We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.” {Read Entire Article}

It is looking like the Obama administration might just be responsible for triggering a boom in the bicycle market. It does after all fall in line with the First Ladies' fitness push. Not that the latter is a bad thing.

Via: Memeorandum