Inhofe: Obama out to 'destroy American energy' By Josiah Ryan - 10/03/11 12:20 PM ET Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) accused President Obama of purposefully trying to kill American energy in a story published in the conservative magazine Human Events on Monday. “The President of the United States wants to destroy American energy,” said Inhofe, who is the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee. “His intention is to kill fossil fuels, which we rely on for 99% of the energy in America." “All of this killing of our energy supply is not by accident,” he added. “It’s on purpose.” Inhofe, who is perhaps the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) greatest critic in the Senate, has long accused the administration of stifling the U.S. economy by placing burdensome regulations on the energy industry. In particular, Human Events reported that Inhofe is concerned about proposed CO2/greenhouse gas-emission regulations that the White House could implement this year which he says would cost the already foundering US economy $300 billion to $400 billion in GDP per year.