Magazine magnate and former conservative presidential candidate Steve Forbes is up today on Politico with a perceptive oped in which he reminds us of the sad performance of President Jimmy Carter during the energy crises of the late 1970s.
He continues by making a point that has been made repeated by The Examiner’s editorial page, namely, that no matter what is done on the renewable energy resource front, America will still be mainly dependent upon fossil fuels like oil and natural gas for the next three decades.
Obama’s Middle East policy fails to account for this fact and then compounds the problem by in effect putting the federal government at war with fossil fuels, according to Forbes:
Forbes has much more to say, which you can read here.
