The Obama oil conspiracy tops The Bush oil conspiracy

Last December, from another blog site, I suggested that there was a contradiction in the methodology the Liberal Progressives apply when assuming conspiracies are behind the ways of the world.

It was a familiar theme among the liberals I know to suggest that George W. Bush was behind the precipitous rise in the price of gasoline at the pump during the latter years of his administration. As I pointed out, what happens to that conspiracy theory when the new president is Barack Hussein Obama? Is Obama a secret plant of the oil industry? Does he meet with George W. Bush in private to hash out plans to line his pockets through the price of oil? Or, maybe we should ask if he's a puppet and Bush is pulling the strings.

Frankly, that conspiracy sounds even a little too far fetched for the ultra-Liberal loons who feed off that kind of thinking. I think it's rational to assume that, A) Obama is not in cahoots with Bush and, B) that the original conspiracy theory about Bush and a connection with the rising price of crude oil is suspect at the very least.

But there is another conspiracy to consider.

You may recall that, during the 2008 campaign, Obama was quoted as saying that the energy costs "would necessarily skyrocket." Of course, that was spoken in regards to coal and natural gas. But, clearly oil comes under the umbrella of Obama's proposed "Cap & Trade" legislation that would require the 'retrofit(s)' responsible for the rising energy prices. In other words, Obama has publicly stated that he is not opposed to a side effect of his proposal that includes a dramatic hit to American's pocketbooks.

By April of 2010, it was clear that Obama's proposed Cap & Trade legislation was in for a tough fight, at the very least. On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform experienced a bit of an explosion followed by several months of ecological and economic disaster. The timing, it would have seemed, could have been very helpful legislatively. The continued battle over health care, and a firm stand by some in Congress against Cap & Trade, bolstered by phone calls, letters and e-mails from constituents opposed to the legislation, apparently did not leave enough time for passage of the measure before the November elections changed the political landscape a bit.

As a result of the disaster, Obama shut down all deep water oil drilling off the coast lines of America. Only last week, nearly one year later, was there consideration of allowing companies to return to deep-water drilling off our coasts. Some might say that was a token response to the recent oil crisis that has the price of gasoline rising precipitously again. Furthermore, the administration seems as though it is still dragging its feet on the idea of returning to the underwater fields of oil drilling.

All of this seems to fit nicely with Obama's apparent willingness to use economic hardship on the part of Americans as room for retreat in order to achieve his agenda.

Consider how long we have done deep-water drilling. According to Wikipedia, the first submersible oil well was drilled in 1891. By the 1960s, oil companies were using semi submersibles. The gist of this is that we've drilled a lot of oil for a long, long time, but this was the first disaster of this scale in the history of oil drilling. And it just happened to come at a time when it had the potential to help Obama's Cap & Trade legislation along.

Maybe, in cahoots with Muslim extremists, the administration helped a suicide bomber to sneak onto the platform with a bomb. Maybe they found some other way to achieve their explosive aims. Clearly, if this is something they wanted to do, they could have found a way.

It's also clear that, if Obama wanted to stop the flow of oil in the gulf and, in the process, increase our reliance on foreign oil, while conservatives were echoing Sarah Palin's "Drill baby, drill," he could not have found a better way. In fact, it's unlikely he could have found another way at all.

Now, maybe this is all crazy. There's no way Obama would do that to the environment when he's an avowed environmentalist. Of course, he's also an avowed American and an avowed Christian, though both of those assertions seem weakly supported by his actions.

Even if this scenario is completely crazy. Even if it draws on the far-fetched idea that Obama has orchestrated more than an ecological disaster, but an ecological disaster designed to fit in with Muslim uprisings in the Middle East, economic struggles at home and a military already stretched thin by involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, as conspiracy theories go, it has more to draw on than 'the price of gasoline is going up and, you know, Bush's family is in oil.'