U.S. energy boom: Obama, GOP spin recent stats

U.S. energy boom: Obama, GOP spin recent stats

By DINA CAPPIELLO
The Associated Press

Published Feb 6, 2012 12:18PM MDT

WASHINGTON • You wouldn’t know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy.
And you wouldn’t know it from President Barack Obama, but he has very little to do with that.
From the presidential campaign trail to Congress, Republicans have been hammering Obama for locking up the nation’s energy resources. GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, for one, accuses Obama of pursuing policies “that keep us from using our own energy.”
But such complaints don’t hold up. The U.S...

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