...for reminding us how shockingly hypocritical you are.
Fox News (11/29/20) reports: "Former President Barack Obama, in his latest memoir, criticized Americans for liking 'cheap gas and big cars' more than they care about 'the environment' – even during a catastrophic event like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The comments came during a section in Obama’s 700-page book, 'A Promised Land,' released earlier this month. On page 570, the former commander in chief recounts a press conference he gave more than a month into the oil spill – now considered one of the largest in history – saying his comments did not adequately express the frustration he truly felt...What he really wanted to say was that government regulatory agencies were not fully equipped to address an environmental accident because many American voters for decades had 'bought into the idea that government was the problem and that business always knew better, and had elected leaders who made it their mission to gut environmental regulations, starve agency budgets, denigrate civil servants, and allow industrial polluters to do whatever the hell they wanted to do.' The only way to truly prevent another catastrophe, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Obama says, 'was to stop drilling entirely.' 'But that wasn’t going to happen because at the end of the day we Americans loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face,' he writes."
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"Ultimately, the underlying reasons for Biden to reject a ban on fracking — jobs, affordable energy, and reduced carbon emissions — should apply as well to fracking on federal lands. If fracking is playing a useful role in transitioning to new ways of producing and consuming energy, it should not matter where the work takes place."
– Gene Green,
Waco Tribune-Herald
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