 barack in wonderland for the national review print edition i give you this quote from travis kavulla in his article regulated unto death if energy prices rise only for america or a particular state as is the case when cost is tied to a new environmental regulation rather than anything fundamental in an energy resource s supply the difference between the cost of production in our nation or a state and the cost for an economic rival elsewhere grows and when you force reliable and cheap energy producers to pay higher costs for regulations that don t do anything to help health or the environment up goes those costs and it doesn t help that the federal government is shoveling cash at industries that perhaps shouldn t be receiving that money  cbs news counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than 65 billion in federal assistance five have filed for bankruptcy the junk bondrated beacon evergreen solar spectrawatt aes subsidiary eastern energy and solyndra so our brightest bulb government officials attack and demean real energy resources like coal and oil and instead embrace the rainbows and unicorns solutions of wind and solar don t get me wrong windmills have their place on 19th century farms and as decorative pieces in gardens and solar panels are great for the paranoid fellow out in the arizona desert trying to live off the grid but for everyone who is welladjusted give us the reliable and plentiful fossil fuels and by now you ve heard that obama has made a pipeline from canada illegal until after the 2012 election however the administration will allow transcanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of nebraska rsquo s sandhills deputy secretary of state william j burns will make the announcement which comes in response to a congressionallymandated deadline of feb 21 for action on the proposed keystone pipeline i can t decide if he is delusional or autocratic they re both probably correct come to think of it he dreams of a nation with citizens forced to drive hybrid chevettes or take highspeed trains but in the short term he has to get reelected and to keep his base rabid leftwing extremists and welfare cheats happy he has to make rabid leftwing extremist decisions thus a nobrainer decision to increase domestic oil supply with a country that doesn t want to kill us or force us to live under sharia law becomes a victim to politics further down the rabbit hole we go  