MARK TAPSCOTT: The Obama Energy Crisis As You’ve Never Before Seen It. “It’s been eclipsed somewhat in recent months by the continued stagnation of the economy and the increasingly loud Republican presidential nomination battle, but the energy crisis caused by President Obama’s Permatorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is just as serious as it ever was. And it’s going to get worse if something isn’t done soon to lift the bureaucratic strangulation being applied to the oil and natural gas industries by Obama’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.” You’d think by now that people would understand the importance of getting oil from someplace other than the Middle East.