http://www.masterresource.org/2009/03/the-energy-strangulation-strategy-the-obama-game-plan-emerges/ A free-market energy blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.masterresource.org/2009/03/the-energy-strangulation-strategy-the-obama-game-plan-emerges/comment-page-1/#comment-19162 Hey, hey, USDA, how many jobs did you kill today? « The Enterprise Blog Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:07:46 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=1634#comment-19162 [...] As I wrote back in 2009, the Obama administration’s entire energy policy can be summarized as one of energy strangulation. And the strangle-hold continues: hot on the heels of the Administration’s decision to study the Keystone pipeline to death, comes a pre-Thanksgiving decision by the USDA to study the natural gas revolution in the hope that it’ll pass out before the next election. As the Washington Examiner reports, President Obama’s United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing. “Conditions have changed since the 2006 Forest Plan was developed,” announced WNF Supervisor Anne Carey on Tuesday. “The technology used in the Utica & Marcellus Shale formations need to be studied to see if potential effects to the surface are significantly different than those identified in the Forest Plan.” The study will take up to six months to complete. The WNF study reportedly “will focus solely on how it could affect forest land,” despite the significance of hydraulic fracturing to united proponents of the delay, “and not how it could affect groundwater.” [...] [...] As I wrote back in 2009, the Obama administration’s entire energy policy can be summarized as one of energy strangulation. And the strangle-hold continues: hot on the heels of the Administration’s decision to study the Keystone pipeline to death, comes a pre-Thanksgiving decision by the USDA to study the natural gas revolution in the hope that it’ll pass out before the next election. As the Washington Examiner reports, President Obama’s United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing. “Conditions have changed since the 2006 Forest Plan was developed,” announced WNF Supervisor Anne Carey on Tuesday. “The technology used in the Utica & Marcellus Shale formations need to be studied to see if potential effects to the surface are significantly different than those identified in the Forest Plan.” The study will take up to six months to complete. The WNF study reportedly “will focus solely on how it could affect forest land,” despite the significance of hydraulic fracturing to united proponents of the delay, “and not how it could affect groundwater.” [...]

]]> http://www.masterresource.org/2009/03/the-energy-strangulation-strategy-the-obama-game-plan-emerges/comment-page-1/#comment-16054 Barack ‘The Energy Strangler’ Obama « The Enterprise Blog Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:37:40 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=1634#comment-16054 [...] An interesting pair of articles can be found in today’s Examiner, one by my peripatetic colleague Steve Hayward, and another by editorial page editor Mark Tapscott. Amusingly enough, they dovetail nicely, and are akin to observations I’ve made before about the Obama administration and its environmental allies: they don’t really want green energy, nor clean energy; they want everyone to have far less energy, and they want that rationed by price as well as by fiat. They want energy strangulation. [...] [...] An interesting pair of articles can be found in today’s Examiner, one by my peripatetic colleague Steve Hayward, and another by editorial page editor Mark Tapscott. Amusingly enough, they dovetail nicely, and are akin to observations I’ve made before about the Obama administration and its environmental allies: they don’t really want green energy, nor clean energy; they want everyone to have far less energy, and they want that rationed by price as well as by fiat. They want energy strangulation. [...]

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