Just a day after saying it will ban commercial oil drilling off the Atlantic Coast, the Obama administration dedicated more than 125 square miles off Long Island in the Atlantic for the development of commercial wind energy.
The hypocrisy could be heard up and down the more than 2,000 miles of Atlantic coastline.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell was the administration point person sent out to make the case. The oil drilling decision, she said on Tuesday, “protects the Atlantic for future generations. Now is not the time to start leasing off the Atlantic Coast.”
“Today’s milestone [creating a wind farm],” Jewell said on Wednesday, “marks another important step in the president’s strategy to tap clean, renewable energy from the nation’s vast wind and solar resources.”
The administration, after seven years, is not fooling anyone. The president’s stated aim even before he was elected in 2008 was to reduce the use of cheaper oil as an energy source and promote the use of more expensive, less reliable green energy sources.