Washington Examiner: Obama's 'starve America first' energy policy creates a backlash

The price of regular gasoline in Morton Grove is at $3.75 a gallon--and I've heard in Chicago it's over $4 a galllon in some places.

Contrary to the belief of some, the Obama administration has an energy policy. In today's Washington Examiner, it's called "starve America first." Fortunately for the pocketbooks of American consumers, Congress is pushing back.

From Arnold's column:

Lesson: Zealous environmentalists will never accept resource development, and utilitarians will never accept the cultish beliefs of Big Green.

Never mind that the Congressional Research Service has released a study, U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources, that shows America's combined recoverable natural gas, oil, and coal endowment is the largest on Earth, far larger than that of Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th), and Canada (6th) combined.

None of that matters to the Obama administration, which has blocked dozens of energy developments on federal lands and now forbids recovery of 83 percent of our oil resources.

There are as many rationalizations for this vandalism to America's capacity to do work as there are blocked areas, which include a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to designate a resource-rich area of 200,000 square miles as untouchable "critical habitat" for polar bears.

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