Today C-Span ran an encore presentation of a hearing conducted by the House and Senate Western States caucuses on the problem of job loss in their states.

The thing that shocked the pee outa me was the datum that several folks confirmed— namely, that the perverse combination of hostility from the Federal agencies, the administration, AND citizen lawsuits have ended up squelching even MORE “alternative energy” project startups than new coal and oil startups!

Look at the deliberate withholding of irrigation water from farmers in California’s central valley — It’s the policy of fanatically doctrinaire bureaucrats following the enabling letter of the Endangered Species legislation.

Next, there are horrendous consequences to local industries and economies when a president creates a bunch of protected “monuments” (under the 1906 Antiquities act, I think.)

Lot of information about how the ecofanatics outside the government work with the courts, agency bureaucrats, and the administration and leftward scurrying congresscritters to use legislation that was NOT meant to cripple the country to … well… cripple the country.