One of the problems with telling a lie is that you eventually get found out. That is what has happened regarding the Obama Administration's call for a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama Administration stated that he moratorium was declared at the request of a panel of seven experts selected by the National Academy of Engineering.
Yesterday Power Line Blog reported that the experts have stated that they never saw the recommendation for a moratorium, and in fact oppose it:
According to Fox News yesterday:
"Salazar's report to Obama said a panel of seven experts "peer reviewed" his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs and an immediate halt to drilling operations.
""None of us actually reviewed the memorandum as it is in the report," oil expert Ken Arnold told Fox News. "What was in the report at the time it was reviewed was quite a bit different in its impact to what there is now. So we wanted to distance ourselves from that recommendation."
"Salazar apologized to those experts Thursday."
This is something that needs to be looked at more closely. It has crossed my mind and the minds of some people much smarter than I am that the handling of the Gulf oil spill is another example of "never let a crisis go to waste." I can't believe this level of incompetence on the part of a group of supposedly smart people. Let's look at what the ongoing crisis in the Gulf and the shutdown of the deepwater rigs will do. It will increase our dependency upon foreign oil--eventually raising gasoline prices to $5 a gallon or more.
According to Heritage.org:
To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency's budget for fiscal 2010."
Remember the EPA takeover of the control of greenhouse gas emissions? There is a pattern here, and the actions taken by this administration will destroy the American economy. The only way to prevent the government takeover ov the energy section of our economy is to elect people in November who will take a stand against big government.
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