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Romney explains
Obama’s ‘all of the above’ energy policy
Posted by Dan Spencer
Tuesday, April 24th
Obama’s for all the sources of energy that come from above the ground.
Wind and solar. He just doesn’t like the things that come from below
the ground. — Mitt Romney
Speaking at Consol Energy’s Research and Development Facility in South
Park Township, Pennsylvania the day before that state’s presidential
primary, Mitt Romney took on President Obama’s energy policies, blaming
them for increasing energy prices:
“The onslaught of regulations — holding off on drilling in the Gulf;
holding off on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf; holding off on
drilling in Alaska; trying to impose the federal government into
fracking regulations…all the regulations relating to coal,” Mr. Romney
said, ticking off a list of policy decisions made or continued by the
Obama Administration. “These things have made the cost of energy go up.”
Romney went on to explain what Obama means when he talks about “all of
the above” when it comes to energy.
Transcript of the video clip:
MITT ROMNEY: “The road we’re on, as Mr. Axelrod described it, the road
we’re on is one that says that energy’s going to become more and more
expensive. It’s going to be harder and harder to get coal; harder and
harder to use it here of course. It’ll be sent to other nations around
the world and used. But the cost here will go up. Harder to use natural
gas.
You saw the President kicked off the regulation, re-regulation of
natural gas until after the election. Harder and harder to use oil. How
in the world the President says, as he did the other day, he’s for ‘all
of the above’ when it comes to energy? I couldn’t figure that out given
his policies. And then it struck me: he’s for all the sources of energy
that come from above the ground. Wind and solar. He just doesn’t like
the things that come from below the ground.
That’s the course he’s on. The course I’ll put us on is to take
advantage of what comes from above the ground as well as what comes
from below the ground so that America can finally become energy secure
and independent of the oil cartel.”
Obama’s policies are raising energy prices and blocking American energy
independence. Obama has never had a problem with higher energy prices.
Obama wasn’t bothered by the prospect of higher gas prices. Energy
Secretary, Stephen Chu, revealed the administration’s support for
support for higher gasoline prices when he told the Wall Street
Journal, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of
gasoline to the levels in Europe.” This week the national average price
of regular gasoline is $3.87 per gallon. It was $1.838 the week Obama
became president.
Obama wasn’t concerned that his Cap-and-Trade plan would have raised
energy prices. During the 2008 presidential campaign Obama admitted
that: “[U]nder my plan of a Cap-and-Trade system, electricity rates
would necessarily skyrocket.” In a January 17, 2008 interview with the
San Francisco Chronicle, Obama said his Cap-and-Trade plan would
bankrupt anyone that built a coal-powered plant.
From Right Side Politics.
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