But Olympic sceptic Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist, said it was easy to complete the "crazy project" on budget, if the budget was continually increased.

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But not only did the Obama Administration not do anything to enable the technological breakthroughs that produced these results, it has actually fought increased oil and gas production every step of the way, and has continually threatened the fracking technology that has made the sharply increasing American production possible.

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