The GOP needs to start hammering Obama on this. He has talked on and on about “clean energy” and “green jobs”. Oil just hit an all-time high for February and we are in danger of skyrocketing oil prices derailing the economy. He has violated a court order and stopped production in the Gulf. Where is his energy plan? Even if everyone bought electric cars, solar and wind power aren’t enough for the grid. North Dakota is booming because of “oil jobs”. Imagine if we opened up full production here all of the good jobs that would be created. Manufacturing is already mostly dead in this country and construction will be stalled for years. We have natural resources we refuse to exploit. Exxon Mobil is about to invest 15 billion dollars in a LNG pipeline in Papua New Guinea—we have tons of natural gas in this country we could be tapping. We should have nuclear power plants going up all over the place, which would provide lots of “good jobs” as well.
Obama needs to be hammered for his incoherence regarding an energy policy here, and the how he is stifling the creation of “good” jobs, not fictitious green jobs that never materialized. (There’s a solar plant in Fremont, CA, that’s received hundreds of millions in tax subsidies and they are still laying off people. A plant in high-cost California can’t compete with China.)