Hillary: Halt all fossil fuel extraction on federal lands

If you enjoyed paying $1.59 a gallon for gas this past weekend, understand a few things. To the extent domestic production affects this, the oil industry is mostly gettings its resources on private lands. That's because Obama, while he's happy to take credit for the increased productivity and lower prices, is fighting new leases on federal lands wherever he can. That's how he can reassure his left-wing base he's an enemy of the oil industry while also taking credit for the low prices.

But there is some oil being extracted on federal lands, and if that stopped all at once, it would definitely have a significant and negative impact on prices. And according to Hillary Clinton, that' exactly what she would do if she became president:

BREAKING: @HillaryClinton would impose a moratorium on fossil fuel extraction on federal lands #fitn pic.twitter.com/Tk3pCrnNeI

— 350 Action (@350action) February 5, 2016

Have you noticed that Hillary's answers to questions are becoming even more saturated with B.S. than we've come to expect from her historically? It's sort of like when she was asked if she would release the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street financial firms, which she's obviously not going to do, but she doesn't want to just flat-out say no - so instead she said, "I'll look into it. I don't know the status." What the hell is that supposed to mean? I don't know the status? What? You can't even argue with that statement because it means nothing. It's just something she pulled out of her # to say. And it's the same thing with her response to this guy who's asking about the moratorium. "There are legal issues we have to work through." What legal issues? That doesn't even make any sense. Even Obama isn't so bogged down with "legal issues" that he's found it necessary to impose a complete moratorium. He just stands in the way wherever he can out of ideological vanity.

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If she actually means this, she's talking about setting back the progress of domestic energy production in a pretty serious way - and all because of some nebulous "legal issues"? Now, my guess is that there are no "legal issues" here that couldn't be solved by the oil developers writing a nice fat check to the Clinton Foundation, or to the Hillary campaign. Or, even better . . . nothing she said to this guy meant anything, and she just figured she'd tell the guy what he wanted to hear and spew some nonsense about "legal issues" as a way of making it sound like she was actually giving him a serious response. But aren't you getting a little tired of a person running for president - and being taken seriously doing so - whose words are not taken seriously because everyone knows from the second they come out of her mouth that they're complete Bolshevik?