Obama snakebit on energy policy? - POLITICO.com Print View

“None of this is risk free,” said Dana Perino, the former Bush White House press secretary who also worked in the Council on Environmental Quality. “If you want to have a BlackBerry and an iPad and heat in your home and drive in your car, and all the other things we benefit from based on the energy we extract, then you’re going to have some risk. That’s the way it is.

“Energy has to come from somewhere,” Perino said. “That’s not President Obama’s fault. There’s a disconnect that’s built up over decades.”