Sen. John Barrasso rips BP Oil Spill Commission

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)

I'm watching the State of the Union address--already the president is talking up green jobs--and he say we wants to do away with subsidies for oil companies.

Earlier today, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) slammed Obama'as BP Oil Spill Commission as being stacked with anti-drilling activists.

Barrasso has been busy lately, in addition to giving the GOP Weekly Address on Saturday, he wrote an op-ed for CNBC:

Under the cover of creating green jobs, Washington has increased the cost of traditional energy. They've done it through politically motivated drilling moratoriums, limiting access to American energy, and imposing costly regulations aimed at trying to control the world's climate. These policies show us that when the president says that he wants to make alternative energy the cheapest form of energy, he doesn’t want to make alternative energy cheaper. He wants to make all other energy more expensive. We need to make America’s energy as clean as we can, as fast as we can, without raising prices on American families.

And he appeared on CNBC yesterday too.



The oil and gas industries are major employers.

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