New at Reason: Jon Basil Utley on Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco

May 13, 2009

It's only a matter of time before President Barack Obama's vast popularity runs aground on his energy policies. In the name of saving the planet from global warming, he has delayed new oil drilling, an action that will have major political repercussions once the world economy recovers. And by appointing extremists like climate czar Carol Browner and science adviser John Holdren, Obama has placed his administration's environmental policy in the hands of radicals. As Jon Basil Utley writes, one day the alternative energy fiasco will be studied as a prime example of waste and fraud that contributed to the collapse of the dollar and to lower living standards for most Americans.

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