Yet another oil industry accident has occurred, showing clearly that there aren’t enough regulations or safety measures in place to prevent these things from occurring.

Catch up on the week’s news, with a focus on seven priorities stated in Obama’s State of the Union speech … plus Hillary Clinton, Pope Benedict XVI, and the cruise vacation from hell (February 9th-16th)

If you’re one of those folks who thinks President Obama is a ‘disappointment,’ you haven’t been paying attention the last four years.

We have everything necessary to become completely energy independent well before the end of this century.

How Obama plans to revive manufacturing, increase clean energy, help small businesses, revamp education, pay the deficit, reform healthcare, and save social security.

According to Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press, ‘U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest producer.’

The second question of the debate draws another sharp contrast between each of the candidates.

David Rouzer, running for Congress in North Carolina’s 7th congressional district, comes out against educated bureaucrats

Socialize risk, privatize profits, that’s the Romney way!

Hydraulic fracking is the process by which natural gas companies extract gas from shale through the use of chemicals under high pressure. These chemicals contaminate water to the point where people can literally set their water on fire while it is running through the faucet.

The GOP has famously opposed the facts behind climate change on nearly every possible front, citing little more than outdated, corporate-bought, dogmatic opinion to back its case against reality.

At a town hall event in Iowa, Newt Gingrich said he would think about naming Sarah Palin as his running mate if he becomes the GOP Presidential nominee. He then suggested that if were elected President, he would also consider appointing Sarah Palin to his cabinet as the new Energy Secretary.

In a recent appearance, former president Bill Clinton remarked that we in the United States ‘look like a joke’ when compared to the vast majority of educated nations in regard to the GOP’s criticism of climate science (video below).

On Sunday Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told The Associated Press that if she became President, she would approve drilling for oil and natural gas in the Everglades, a vast wildlife and wilderness refuge in Florida.

So it seems that crazy migraine lady and Republican presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann, thinks that the U.S. has ample energy resources, but it’s not being exploited because of those gosh darn ‘radical environmentalists’.

America needs to invest in infrastructure, or we could have some serious tragedies. Failing infrastructure is doing significant harm to our country, and our economy.

Following the President’s announcement on Friday of his new fuel standards, Congressman Issa filed letters with executives of every major auto company in the country. Letters that apparently alerted them that an investigation is pending.