After all, what other country does not utilize its natural resources?
What a great move.
Looks like Rick Perry has been quietly busy.
Who gains from America not using its own natural resources? China and Saudi Arabia.
What is the most effective two ways to keep America from using its natural resources?
Buy politicians who will implement policies to restrict resource exploitation, and fund environmental groups who will lobby for those policies, and then endlessly litigate them in Court.
Look at the money required by the environmental movement to fund its armies of lobbyists and lawyers. Those people expect to be paid and paid handsomely. The Sierra Club does not come up with that kind of money by having grandma send them $10 because she saw a photo of a sad looking polar bear in her Good Housekeeping magazine.
Follow the environmentalist money and I'll bet you find a lot of it comes from the PRC and KSA. The mere fact that they have so much to gain from this policy tells me they are doing it.