Tough times for those attempting to take the high ground on environmental issues when Big Coal, Big Oil and Big Gas are using our struggling workforce to dig the political ground out from under them, but at some point, America has to question the absurdity that is our national energy policy — and why our gangbusters resource exploitation is not translating to cheaper domestic energy. Indeed, we have such a glut of energy these days that we are openly burning off enough natural gas in North Dakota “fracking” fields (fracking: hydraulic fracturing of rock with huge amounts of water and …