Interesting Angle on the Energy “Debate”

I think politics runs in a sort of parallel universe to governing. I’m not sure it ought to, but it does. Recognizing that, I’m not sure how to react to this angle noted by KagroX at DailyKos reporting on an inquiry sent by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden to Samuel Bordman, Secretary of the Department of Energy.

Wyden notes the recent frothiness of drill now, drill everywhere, DRILL DRILL DRILL approach to energy policy advocated by the GOP in its political campaigns. He asks the Secretary of Energy, then, how he could approve of exporting Alaskan natural gas to Japan.

The Administration is trying to have it both ways – arguing that we need to drill everywhere because we don’t have adequate energy supplies, while finding that we have so much energy that big oil companies can export it overseas and keep prices here at home higher than they would otherwise be.

Here is where “Country First” apparently conflicts with free markets.