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(Editorial note:  I was doing so well moving to shorter posts.  I fail miserably in achieving that goal here.  I went the comprehensive route instead.  I promise to return to shorter posts in the future.  Buckle up – this is a long ride.  I hope you find it’s worth it.)
(Update:  There’s an important correction in [...]

This is good language from the President in bold:
America’s dependence on oil is one of the most serious threats that our nation has faced.

This is not:
They’ll be jobs building the wind turbines and solar panels and fuel-efficient cars that will lower our dependence on foreign oil …

Nor is this:
And just last week I visited the [...]

President Obama may not realize that the people who work for him are required to ignore hundreds (thousands?) of Congressional earmarks.  The President has the ability to stop them from doing so.  I hope that he will not.
Thanks go to former OMB General Counsel Jeff Rosen for pointing this out.
An Executive Order is a document [...]

In May of 2007, I wrote “Why are gas prices high, and what can we do about it?”  At the time, the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.22.
The national average price is now 59¢ higher, at $3.81 per gallon.  That’s down 30¢ from a high of $4.11 in early [...]

The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is one penny short of its all-time high (adjusted for inflation), at $3.22 per gallon.  That’s about $1 per gallon higher than early last November.  In recent years, it reached $3.04 in September of 2005, and $3.00 in August of 2006.
Q:         Why are gasoline [...]