Want affordable gas? Boot Obama. And the GOP.
Republicans love to blame Obama’s EPA for throwing up regulatory roadblocks to energy exploration and refining, arguing they play a role in the rising price of gas.
They’re right. Thanks to the fracking boom oil and gas drilling on private land is rising, but only because Obama’s power to block development on private land is limited. Oil and gas exploration and development on federally-controlled lands and oceans has plunged deeply.
But who created the EPA?
Republican Richard Nixon.
Who reauthorized the EPA and funded its expansion?
Every Republican president and Congress since then.
And has Mitt Romney even spoken about abolishing the EPA?
No.
Want affordable gas? Remove the barriers to oil exploration, development and refining.
The only party to do it?
Libertarians.
