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There’s an old saying in America that comes to mind when I think of the President’s trip to Oklahoma this week to share his vision for domestic energy policy: talk is cheap. Gasoline is not.

On Monday, the American Automobile Administration (AAA) reported that the average price of a gallon of gas in Cushing, Okla., was somewhere around $3.66. I’ve heard people from the right and the left decry these high prices and blame everyone from President Obama, to President Bush, to the unexpected victors of March Madness. Well, as in basketball, President Obama seems to think that, “the best defense is a good offense.”  

That must be why he suddenly changed his tune on the Keystone XL pipeline from staunch rejection to glad-handed praise. For the past 44 months, we’ve heard that the President intends to block the Keystone XL pipeline for one reason or another. So far, he’s been mostly successful.

But when President Obama comes to Cushing, Ok! la., this week he intends to pull a  “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” moment. In front of a small, hand-selected group of supporters, the president will hold a taxpayer-funded campaign photo-op and execute a complete reversal on a pipeline project he has spent 44 months opposing.  

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