This'n'That; April Twenty-Seventh #2; owe-bama Oil,Energy Policy

Why Does He Even Bother?!?
    He's making my efforts to decrease my personal commentaries on owe-bama--himself--very difficult, to say the least!!  My references to his on-going incompetencies should be viewed as professional, rather than personal, although he is very little of either.
    In what owe-bama thinks is a positive in view of the rising prices at the pump, he's promoting the cessation of subsidies to 'big-oil' in a letter to the most senior of the professional politicians.  At the same time, the "Clown Prince" is practically demanding that international oil producers step up their production.
    Why does he even bother to disguise his hatred and disgust with American oil producers?!? owe-bama said that he'd not mind that retail gas prices rise to the $5 per gallon level; he just didn't want them to rise too quickly, so as to tarnish his--self determined--"squeeky clean" image. At a time when current retail pump prices are approaching a $4/gallon national average ($5 in some individual markets!), owe-bama is forcing the prices even higher with his ridiculous demands!! 
    On Monday, the EPA's Environmental Review Board denied Shell Oil an important air quality permit.... why, you ask:  Shell Oil didn't consider the emmisions of an ice-breaker ship when calculating the overall greenhouse gas emissions of the entire project!!  Now we--the retail fuel consumer--will absorb the $4+Billion investment that Shell Oil's sure to write off as a loss.
(Are we ruled by a bunch that make the 'village idiot' look like a genius?!?  Sure looks that way to me!!)
Does owe-bama not realize this loss of income and investment will be passed on to the consumer?  Of course he does!!  He's under the delusion that his 2008 "Campaign of Fluff" base is still intact; that he's a 'shoo-in' for reelection.
    What owe-bama doesn't realize though, is that the preferential treatment he affords his boss--NOT you and I, silly!--George Soros; doesn't resonate well with the American voting public.  Soros 'juggled' his investments to make it appear he'd divested his investment funds of Petrobras stock; in reality he did nothing more than switch common stock for preferred stock.  There have been reports that the owe-bama regime 'invested' money--about $3Bln we don't have--in Chilean oil refineries.  These 'reports' have mysteriously disappeared from web search results!
    owe-bama's continued ignoring of court orders to lift the Gulf drilling moritorium are having his desired effect;  several Gulf deep-water drilling rigs have relocated to waters off the coast of Brazil-could Soros have any influence on this? ....naw!!!!!!!!!!!
    Donald Trump and his wrangling about the 'birther' issue is playing into owe-bama's 'scheme-of-things;' it keeps most of his other communistic actions off the front pages.  We're being set up by the guy who campaigned to save us from those evil Bushes; from those evil health insurers, providers; from those evil capitalists; from those evil rich; from those evil dollars we may accumulate over the $250,000 (evil rich) threshold; et al!!
    I think I've 'figgered out' the owe-bama regime's energy policy:  "The highest retail prices of foreign oil, for those who can ill afford them!"  Everything owe-bama does--while benefitting Soros--is aimed directly at the American middle-class; driving the gas prices ever higher, but slowly; 'we wouldn't want "the little people" to notice!'  Besides that:  without Rahm Emmanuel to supervise him, owe-bama is continually letting "a good crisis go to waste!"
Til Nex'Time....