https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/26/obamas-recipe-for-conservative-revival/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 04:33:10 -0400<![CDATA[A flourishing American economic sector is fossil fuels — especially oil and natural gas — which the Obama administration seems to regret and often impedes (see: fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline). Yet the natural gas boom is one of the main reasons why, in 2012, U.S. fossil-fuel emissions were the lowest since 1992. Obama’s wariness about the pipeline suggests that he subscribes to some environmentalists’ stupendously weird theory: If the pipeline is not built to carry oil from the (supposedly dangerous) development of Canadian tar sands, Canada will leave those sands undeveloped rather than sell the oil to China.]]>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:10:31 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/26/obamas-recipe-for-conservative-revival-n99600