Obama's Energy Policies Will Keep Elkhart Unemployed

By Steve Gill

It's a shame that President Obama focused so much of his time yesterday and his presentation last night on Elkhart, Indiana without recognizing that the reason that community has seen its unemployment rate spike from 4-14% in recent months was due to the restrictive and punitive energy policies that his own administration supports. Elkhart is the "RV Capitol of the World." 50% of all RVs are made in Elkhart. When the gasoline prices spiked to over $4 a gallon last year, and with his administration pursuing energy and environmental policies that will return us to those prices and higher, RVs don't sell. So there is no need to make more of them, in Elkhart or anywhere else! This trillion dollar pork barrel spending orgy that President Obama is passing won't cure their problems. Once again, he is offering false hopes and phony policies when we desperately need to drill for more oil and natural gas and develop America's energy resources, cut the tax burden on individuals and companies who can fuel an economic resurgence, and provide immediate mortgage relief to revitalize our economy. [more...]