In a 2008 “Meet the Press” interview, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.” She may have slipped on a banana peel of the mind, or perhaps she really didn’t know that natural gas is a fossil fuel. Either way, it was clearly a harmless error not intended to confuse or deceive. Apply that to President Obama’s State of the Union address, and his remarks on energy policy. Harmless error, or damaging duplicity?
Obama tried to take credit for the current employment and economic success of the natural gas boom. “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years,” he said, “and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.”
