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Obama Tilting at Oil Companies, Propping Up Windmills

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, April 28 2011

In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the title character repeatedly makes a fool of himself with well-meaning crusades against common sense. With U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder riding along as Sancho Panza, President Barack Obama is mounting his own quixotic quest: lowering gas prices by increasing the cost of doing business. One of Don Quixote’s most infamous escapades was declaring battle against a windmill, then one of the greatest engines of economic progress. Today, President Barack Obama is trying to wage war against economic reality by threatening to prosecute oil…

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