The Obama administration's loathsome cowboy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, won't take no for an answer. He's been smacked down repeatedly by federal courts for imposing a draconian, junk science-based moratorium on the oil and gas industry. Yet, the job-killing zealot and his boss just introduced another ruinous offshore drilling ban two weeks ago.
The White House rationale for the renewed crackdown? Because we said so.
Thomas Pyle of the D.C.-based Institute for Energy Research reports that the Salazar scheme "reinstitutes a 30-year moratorium on offshore energy exploration that will keep our most promising resources locked away until long...












Poor people in the 3rd world are having to do without food because of the price impact of US ethanol policy. I do love how the progressives protect the poorest among us...
By RAIL? Really?
Ship it, by rail, I think you mean. And if it were loose on the highways, you'd have 10x the shipments, with probably 10x the accidents, all in places with lots of people. Railroads don't let people on their right-of-way much.