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The Obama administration is masterful at playing the news cycle to its benefit. Embarrassing announcements, usually War on Terror missteps, are revealed late on Fridays--because not as many people are following the news on Saturday. It's called the Friday news dump.
The White House is so good at it that they've learned how to utilize a Friday news dump on other days of the week. For instance, the "resignation" of green jobs czar Van Jones was announced on the Sunday before Labor Day. And Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's "Wild Lands" order was heralded on a Thursday, the day before Christmas Eve last year. What is this order? The department's Bureau of Land Management will review 220 million acres it owns in western states and decide which parcels should be protected as wilderness.
In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, a vital energy resource area, some public officials are alarmed.
For instance, Park County, Wyoming commissioner summed up the order perfectly, as the Billings Gazette tells us:
As Tilden sees it, use of the term "wildlands" is an attempt to create de facto wilderness by usurping the authority of Congress. If that's the goal — and if it's successful — Tilden said it could potentially stifle the state's oil and gas industry by setting areas off limits to drilling.In January, Wyoming's governor Matt Mead asked Salazar to rescind the Wild Lands order.
But while Obama says "there is more we can do" in regards to producing oil domestically, his administration appears poised to prevent the extraction of petroleum and other fossil fuels on millions of acres of western land.
The audaciousness of this man is astounding.
Have you checked the price of gasoline lately?
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