Europe has long insisted that Obama raise 'irresponsibly' low US energy and electricity prices in order to level the playing field for them. Obama has been happy to oblige with 'nothing less than an assault on American industry and millions of blue collar workers'-Gosselin, June 2013

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"Europeans have long complained that their competitiveness has been hampered by the USA's "irresponsibly" low energy and electricity prices, and have insisted that Obama level the playing field by increasing prices in the USA....Obama is happy to oblige."...
 
6/26/2013, "Obama Is Merely Leveling The Energy Playing Field With Europe – Declares An End To Cheap American Energy," P. Gosselin, NoTricksZone (reference 6/22/2013, "High energy costs in Germany," Frankfurter Allgeneine, von Petersdorff, excerpts below.)

"European policy created its own unlevel energy playing field...

Now energy prices are sky high and German industry in many sectors cannot compete globally....So far Germany has coped by granting many of its energy intensive industries exemptions from paying the renewable energy levies....If revoked, companies once again will be facing high costs and a competitive disadvantage internationally. The solution: Either make energy cheaper for European countries, or insist the rest of the world makes its energy more expensive.

 

Europeanization of American Energy Prices...

This increasing unlevel energy playing field (created by Europe itself) is precisely what is driving Obama's newly announced energy policy. Europeans have long complained that their competitiveness has been hampered by the USA's "irresponsibly" low energy and electricity prices, and have insisted that Obama level the playing field by increasing prices in the USA. Somehow (using climate), Europe has convinced the USA to make its energy more expensive. Obama is happy to oblige....
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This is what's behind the plan announced by Obama yesterday. Obama is more than willing and ready to implement any scheme that is designed to punish Americans, it seems. This is only the first step.

Europe tells America: Please repeat our blunders:...

Europe also expects America to repeat its renewable energy folly as well. America too must have a truly shoddy patchwork of inefficient and unpredictable renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, and an unstable power grid. Only this way can the playing field between America and Europe be truly level....

Declaration of war on blue-collar workers

Ironically not long ago the stated objective of western politicians was to generate prosperity for its citizens. Today it’s precisely the opposite. Obama’s plan is nothing less than an assault on American industry and millions of blue collar workers."

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1. US "Declaration of war on blue-collar workers" (noted above, 2013)

2. Additional 2013 citation: war has been declared on Americans by their government:

"The President of the United States appears to have declared peace in the world and war on Americans."

6/10/2013, "A loud and empty suit in the Chicago style," Quadrant Online, Australia, by Daryl McCann (Above is last sentence in article) (Comment: The entire US political class shares Obama's agenda, which is to once and for all destroy the annoying middle class. In both 2008 and 2012 Obama ran virtually unopposed because the GOP Establishment wanted him to win.) 

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3. 2016 citation: Attack on working class by US government has been ongoing for decades:

"These disaffected working-class people are especially weary of master plans that deliberately injure Americans for the benefit of big U.S. investors and foreign interests....

For decades now, our central government has asserted the wisdom and moral stature to pick “winners and losers.” The people who feel they’ve been picked as losers, for generations, are tired of it...

They’re under attack by the federal government, and they want relief....
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Donald Trump sends a very different set of signals. The clearest is the signal he sends about putting American government to work on behalf of working Americans. It’s so different from what they’re used to hearing, from both parties."...

5/10/2016, "Trump Won with the Working Class Voters the GOP Forgot," John Hayward, Breitbart

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Article referenced at top:
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"The German Ideology is, only more expensive power is good power. That does not fit in the global environment."

6/22/2013, "High energy costs in Germany," Frankfurter Allgeneine (Germany), Winand von Petersdorff
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"The energy transition, one of the highest priorities of the federal government has lost its magic, since they will be visible on your electricity bill: it is expensive, people notice now....
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"Especially in Germany explode the cost of energy. We should be careful that the competitiveness of German industry will not be further compromised,"warned Kurt Bock, head of the world's largest chemical company BASF. Nervously are mainly the representatives of industrial companies that must compete internationally. They are not only faced with the energy transition in the home, but with a second in the United States: the shale gas revolution. It ensures that America's energy is dramatically cheaper.

  
Prices for natural gas are in America at one third to one fourth of the German level. For the chemical industry there, the advantage may even act in two ways: They use the cheap gas not only as an energy source, but also as a raw material. The American competitors have thus changed from importers to exporters - thanks to investors who have lost their money five to ten years ago elsewhere. The Germans have to even contributed, for example, BASF commitment in Texas and Louisiana.
 
Thus, the central assumption of the German energy transition is fragile that electricity from conventional sources such as natural gas or coal inevitably becomes more expensive and makes the German green energy relatively cheaper. Now it turns out that the price of electricity from coal and gas may even decline. This makes the high cost of energy in Germany, which are environmentally motivated unintentionally to a negative selling point in the global competition....

(p. 2) According Vassiliadis the ways to neutralize higher prices by saving energy are largely exhausted. From 1990 until today, the chemical industry has doubled energy efficiency. In other words, for the same production it needs only half as much energy as 20 years ago, calculates the chemical giant Bayer. Unionists Vassiliadis warns, "The German Ideology is, only more expensive power is good power. That does not fit in the global environment.""

  


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German flagship daily Frankfurter Allgeneine Zeitung - See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/26/obama-leveling-the-energy-playing-field-with-europe-declares-an-end-to-cheap-american-energy/#sthash.ycgmVXYw.SdVy.......................................