2-06-12 “Hang Together or Be Hanged Separately”

Comment:  Today Congressman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) documents the Obama Administration's action to close down oil shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.  We have come to expect anti fossil fuel, anti economy, anti job initiatives from the Obama Administration.  But today we hear Aubrey McClendon (NGP Photo) of Chesapeake Energy Corp and Michael Brune of the Sierra Club joined forces to -- in effect -- fight the coal industry's huge contribution to the low cost of electrical power production throughout the U.S.   After accepting McClendon's $26 million to oppose the coal industry, [...]