We're in trouble:
From the Heritage Foundation via Instapundit:
UPDATE: From Instapundit:
Fact: President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time he made the statement, gas cost $7 – $8 a gallon in Europe.
Fact: Since taking office, President Obama's entire energy agenda has made a gallon of gas more expensive:Congress was overrun by Democrats in part because the establishment MSM tied high gas prices to Bush. With Obama in the Oval Office, not a boo or peep from these same media types. Related: Shell CEO: Get ready for $5 Gas by 2012
- 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.
- This 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.
UPDATE: From Instapundit:
WHY THEY'D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT'D): $5 a gallon gas? Washington insiders are wondering if the next real economic crisis facing President Obama is when gasoline prices spike to $4 or $5 per gallon. At today's press briefing, a White House press spokesman rebuffed queries about the possibility saying 'there are many people that would get upset at me if I started to opine on oil and gas prices, so I won't.'"
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