President Obama has been in office for more than three years now. One of the things that will be a problem for him in the coming election is the high price of gas at the pump. The President is threatening to take away the tax deductions from oil companies that all other businesses have–singling them out for higher taxes. That will further increase the price of gas at the pump. A video has surfaced recently that might explain some of these actions.<\/p>\n
Yesterday CNS News<\/a>\u00a0reported that\u00a0in 2010\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz stating that the “general philosophy” of the EPA is to\u00a0\u00a0\u201ccrucify\u201d and \u201cmake examples\u201d of oil and gas companies. And we wonder why we haven’t made serious progress in the area of energy independence.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Soon after Armendariz touted the EPA\u2019s \u201cphilosophy,\u201d the EPA began smear campaigns against natural gas<\/a> producers, Inhofe<\/a>\u2019s office noted in advance of today\u2019s Senate speech:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNot long after Administrator\u00a0Armendariz\u00a0made these comments in 2010, EPA targeted US natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn all three of these cases, EPA initially made headline-grabbing statements either insinuating or proclaiming outright that the use of hydraulic fracturing<\/a> by American energy producers was the cause of water contamination, but in each case their comments were premature at best \u2013 and despite their most valiant efforts, they have been unable to find any sound scientific evidence to make this link.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the link to the YouTube<\/a>\u00a0clip of Administrator Armendariz’ statement. Here is the video clip:\u00a0<\/p>\n