Rep. Flores: Obama ‘Coddles Environmentalists'

Texas Congressman Bill Flores and other House GOP members just finished a week away from Washington that included tours of off shore oil rigs, fracking facilities, and pipeline manufacturing plants. “Most Americans, I think, realize how important energy security is. If we don’t have energy security we can’t have economic growth opportunities. If we don’t have economic growth opportunities, than we can’t pay for robust national security,” Flores told Newsmax.TV during an exclusive interview. “The Barnet shale area makes my district the second largest producer of natural gas in the nation. “It was done by drilling, not by investing in things like Solyndra. “There are many people in the Obama administration who want to find a way to regulate or ban the use of hydraulic fracturing. They see that as the key to getting this country off fossil fuel.” Flores added that President Barack Obama’s refusal to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is another sign that he is more interested in alternative energy than energy independence. “That runs afoul of what the president wants to do when he coddles his environmental left.”...more