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Obama made clear his animosity against America’s high standard of living based on low-cost electricity. [] he said, “under my plan [] electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket … “

Remember this is a president who said “under my plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.” Obama seems to be doing everything he can to increase energy costs. Higher energy costs means fewer jobs. More ….

Fracking could turn the United States into the world’s #1 oil producer within just a few more years, while helping to generate millions of jobs and billions in local, state and federal revenues. It devastates the Obama/environmentalist mantra that we are running out of oil and gas, and makes wind, solar and biofuel “alternatives” increasingly uncompetitive, risky and unable to justify the billions of taxpayer dollars required to subsidize them.

How futile and ultimately harmful the quest for hydrocarbon-free “green” energy actually is – and how hypocritical Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other eco activists are, when they tell the rest of the world how to live.

Oil and gas not only touches people’s lives everyday whenever you flip on the light or gas up at the gas station but it affects costs of all services and goods. Higher energy costs drive up costs for virtually everything.

Advancing “social equity” and “environmental justice,” in ways that Rio+20 sought to do, would actually have meant perpetuating poverty for developing countries, and reducing living standards in wealthier countries. The goal, as in all previous incarnations of Rio+20, was to ensure more equal sharing of increasing scarcity – except for ruling elites.

The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol saga is a perfect example.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be dismissed or ignored so that wealthy environmental groups can be accommodated.

Supply matters. Even Obama and the anti-drilling Democrats have acknowledged that increasing supply brings down prices. But they don’t want the economic boost and jobs from more drilling to happen in America. Obama and the Dems have asked Saudi Arabia and Brazil to increase supply to help bring down prices but continue to lie about increasing supplies at home.

The “Obama Energy Gap” — the glaring discrepancy between the president’s rhetorical support for Republicans’ ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy, and his failed energy record that has driven up gas prices and cost American jobs is highlighted by speaker Boehner. As President Obama visits Cushing, Oklahoma today in a desperate attempt to claim credit for expediting the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, Speaker Boehner noted that President Obama has rejected and personally lobbied against the pipeline, and that there’s only one permit requiring his approval — the one he is currently blocking to facilitate the flow of Canadian and American energy to U.S. refineries. Boehner uses a graphic illustration so even Democrat socialists can understand.