Oil Drilling Boom....North Dakota

In North Dakota, surprise, surprise, there is an oil drilling boom. People are back to work and making six figure salaries in areas that were desolate just a few years ago. The Obama administration can't stop the drilling because it is on private land. The Obama administration has, however, stopped drilling on public land.

For all of Barack Obama's talk about wanting to experiment with new energies and get people in battery powered clown cars of the future, all we need to do is go back to Jan. 20, 2011. President Obama's Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, http://www.redstate.com/williamjameson/2011/01/20/obamas-energy-sec-wants-7-t..." target="_blank" style="">publicly said he wanted to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time, gas in Europe was $7 to $8 per gallon.

President Obama may be publicly lamenting the high price of gasoline, but privately he and his administration have championed the high cost of fuel to force Americans to change their behavior and get out of cars. Hopefully, come November, Americans will get him out of office. 

—Erick Erickson

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