Media join president in taking an anti-energy industry stance.

By Julia A. Seymour

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:11 PM EST

According to the Jan. 24, Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama will focus part of his State of the Union address on energy security and the “benefits of increased U.S. oil and gas production.”

This is almost laughable given Obama’s many anti-energy decisions in the past three years as president. As recently as Jan. 18, his administration rejected TransCanada’s bid to extend the Keystone pipeline by “linking the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.” The $7 billion Keystone XL project would have created thousands to tens of thousands of jobs in the U.S., and boosted American energy security.
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