Wisconsin congressman James Sensenbrenner examines for National Review Online readers President Obama’s promise to pursue “an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy.”
I applaud the sentiment. Unfortunately, sandwiched between his campaign speeches have been three painful years of failed policies.
It’s like a real-world version of the movie Groundhog Day. Americans keep hearing the same promises for domestic energy production and green jobs, but then they wake up to political pandering and green scandals.
This is the same administration that placed a moratorium on offshore oil drilling, costing the country up to 220,000 barrels of domestic oil per day in 2011, according to estimates from the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency.
And who can forget cap-and-trade? The same president who is now proposing increased domestic energy supplies attempted to build an expansive new bureaucracy that, in the president’s own words, was designed to make energy prices “skyrocket.” When cap-and-tax failed, the president shifted gears and regulated what he couldn’t legislate.
