$4 Gasoline is Not “Good Results”

Today, President Obama’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar defended the Obama administration’s failure of an energy policy while testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

SALAZAR: “We have an energy strategy and a policy that we have been working on from day one, and we believe it continues to show good results.”

Secretary Salazar’s statement stands in contrast to remarks delivered by his boss, President Obama, just a few months earlier:

OBAMA: “Our energy policy is just a hodgepodge, and for all the progress we’ve made, we’re not where we need to be in making sure that this is an energy-efficient economy that is running on all cylinders.” (June 3, 2011)

OBAMA: “We haven’t had an energy policy in this country that makes sense and frees ourselves from dependence on foreign oil.” (October 17, 2011)

Secretary Salazar’s statement also contradicts media accounting of the President’s failure of an energy policy. Nia-Malika Henderson, a national political reporter for the Washington Post, contrasted candidate-Obama to President Obama by saying:

“I remember covering him on the campaign and he would talk about, you know, turning these manufacturing plants into wind turbine plants and it seemed to work then, but, you know, in terms of the reality on the ground, actually success during his presidency, absolutely none.”

As President Obama himself admitted, his administration has no credible energy strategy. On his watch, gas prices have risen 101 percent, burdensome regulations and production restrictions increasingly threaten our abundant, domestic supply of American energy resources, and Obama’s gambles on Solyndra and other renewable energy companies continue to fail.

By these facts, President Obama’s “hodgepodge” of energy policies have not been “good” results for taxpayers.