Bloom Off Arctic Oil Race: Disappointments may complicate Romney's efforts to portray Obama as anti-oil-development

Bloom Off Arctic Oil Race

Bloom Off Arctic Oil Race: Disappointments may complicate Romney's efforts to portray Obama as anti-oil-development

When the two U.S. presidential candidates meet for their first debate this coming Wednesday, it is to be expected that they will differentiate themselves on energy issues, among others, and that Mitt Romney will portray President Barack Obama as anti-energy-development. Though nobody doubts that the president is indeed more attuned to environmental and public health concerns than a Republican president would be, and that he has tried harder to promote renewable energy technologies than a Republican would, Romney will be on somewhat thin ice. In the last year, Obama has increasingly described himself as sympathetic to all energy resources, and he can muster a good deal of evidence to support the claim that this indeed has been his real position all along. And now, with setbacks to oil development efforts in the Arctic, there is an inconvenient reminder that the most pro-dev...

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