"A number of writers, including me, have criticized the Obama administration for its “war on energy.” However, this charge is not really the correct one. President Obama is, in fact, waging a war on American consumers and workers. Energy — especially fossil fuels — is only a weapon. An early clue came when he appointed Steven Chu, who said he wanted to “boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” as his first secretary of energy. We should have known then that Mr. Obama was throwing the American consumer under the bus, albeit one more costly to operate" - :furious: