"We are actually poised to control our own energy future."

If by that you mean the Keystone Pipeline and widespread fracking, Mr. President, it's an energy future that will kill us, and sooner rather than later.



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Yeah, I'd say the odds of him approving what Charles Pierce calls the Death Funnel of Canadian tar sands oil just jumped to near-certain.

And the timing of this love note to fossil fuels - while the bodies of thousands of victims of carbon-driving climate change are rotting in the Phillipine sun - is despicable.