True that FOXNews reported and is posting the official version of the offshore drilling relief story. But their live broadcast this morning told a wider story, including that the change does not begin to take effect for many years, with the possibility of significant court battles along the way. One should always be suspicious when the Obama administration does something ‘nice,’ however, and this Easter egg is rotten to the core, meant perhaps as a distraction from tomorrow’s energy news. Why? Because according to reports, tomorrow the EPA takes over the real U.S. energy policy.
Reports indicate that tomorrow CO2 legally and officially becomes a pollutant subject to administrative (read: partisan political) control by the EPA. No, you won’t ever be voting for those people. Will this be the big, big news tomorrow? Likely not, but it will be a big deal in people?s real lives, for sure.
In yet another neat trick, the ever-expedient and manipulative Mr. Obama and company today very publicly fed the masses some happy drugs. And if little or no fanfare accompanies tomorrow’s EPA/CO2 events, as one might guess, it’s a big score for the Administration. Of course, the happy drugs will wear off, especially when no offshore oil is realized for many years, or possibly ever, but the CO2 tragedy will not vanish into thin air. It will be set to play itself out as the Administration sees fit for the foreseeable future.
